An updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is released on the second Tuesday of each month, and as needed to respond to security incidents.
Added to MSRT’s November release, Win32/FakeSecSen has been removed from 994,061 distinct machines, 548,218 of them in the USA.
Microsoft® Malware Protection Center.
Now how did one’s machine get infected by FakeSecSen? From our research a few Win32/Renos variants such as TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.Y, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.AY, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Renos.EK are responsible for downloading FakeSecSen.
Read the article here by Scott Wu, Scott Molenkamp and Hamish O’Dea.
