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Security Tool is just one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live, Advanced Virus Remover, Internet Security 2010, and others that hold your computer hostage until you pay their ransom money. They tell you that your PC is infected with fake viruses, and prevent you from doing anything to remove them.

This particular virus blocks you from doing most things, like Task Manager…

It also gives you loads of error messages that just seem to pop up constantly.

And worse, it blocks you from running malware removal tools:

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Backdoor.Darkmoon!gen3

Risk Level 1: Very Low

Discovered:
December 24, 2010
Updated:
December 24, 2010 5:09:44 PM
Type:
Trojan
Systems Affected:
Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Backdoor.Darkmoon!gen3 is a heuristic detection used to detect threats associated with the Backdoor.Darkmoon family.

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