Trojan.Fakeavalert

Trojan.Fakeavalert is this adware application, Trojan.Fakeavalert, which was designed to deliver a variety of advertisements, affiliated with the adware, so as to ensure the optimal advertising of the products associated with Trojan.Fakeavalert.

Being a form of a malicious Trojan infection, Trojan.Fakeavalert will only represent a security risk to any computer is has infiltrated.
Trojan.Fakeavalert is a potentially unwanted adware program that could be used to display various pop-up advertisements.

According to a few sources, Trojan.Fakeavalert has been found to perform the following functions:

• Trojan.Fakeavalert is Adware that can present itself as a toolbar
• Trojan.Fakeavalert logs your internet browsing history
• Trojan.Fakeavalert displays lots of annoying advertisements
• Trojan.Fakeavalert may infect your system via spyware or freeware
• Trojan.Fakeavalert may repair its files, spread or update by itself
• Trojan.Fakeavalert may prove difficult or impossible to remove
• Trojan.Fakeavalert violates your privacy and compromises your security

What Trojan.Fakeavalert will do is load up with Internet Explorer, as a Browser helper Object (BHO). This means that Trojan.Fakeavalert is a dynamic link library (DLL) that tends to run as soon as Internet Explorer is started. BHO’s are usually installed covertly onto an unsuspecting computer system, so as to ensure the secretive gathering of information from the infected computer to a remote controller.

How does Trojan.Fakeavalert find its way onto a computer system?
Well, there are a few ways this application could have entered into a system, namely:

- The user’s operating system and Web browser security setting are too flexible and relaxed
- The user does not follow safe Internet and PC practices.

There are a few rules one should adhere to, at all times to ensure the safety and security of a computer system remains intact.
• Rule 1:
Keep your Windows up to date. (Tip: Regularly visit Windows Update and set your PC to receive security and critical updates automatically)

• Rule 2:
Download and install a reliable anti-spyware program, one that will recognize the current form of Trojan.Fakeavalert, a well as other forms of spyware.

• Rule 3:
Install a firewall onto your system, and keep it turned on. A firewall is essential for complete protection for your system.

• Rule 4:
Keep the definitions in your anti-spyware up to date at all times.

There are a few symptoms affiliated with an Adware infection, which are usually tell-tale signs of an infection:

1. PC is working slowly
2. New desktop shortcuts are displayed on the system
3. Annoying pop-up messages (in some cases) keep appearing on the PC
4. E-mails are being sent from your email address without your consent.

The best way to ensure whether your system has been infected is to perform a full computer system scan with a legitimate anti-spyware application.

The fact that Trojan.Fakeavalert can easily enter any PC system via security exploits and flaws, most times without the user’s interaction, means that it is that much easier for Trojan.Fakeavalert to enter the system and ensure the system’s security is immensely compromised.

Although manual removal may be the best way to delete this parasite, and all its affiliates, the manual removal process is rather complicated and cumbersome, and should not be attempted by a computer novice, as one needs to be able to navigate their way around the registry files of the infected system.

I would recommend that in order to avoid any unneeded risks of damage to your computer system, it is highly recommended to make use of a reliable and legitimate anti-spyware application, so as to remove Trojan.Fakeavalert and all its components from the infected computer system.