Mal/FakeAle-A is a family of malware that may display spurious warnings about the computer being infected with other malware.
Members of Mal/FakeAle-A typically copy themselves to the root of drive C: and create the following registry entry to run themselves on restart:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Sys(number).exe
C:\Sys(number).exe
More information can be found at this Sophos page.
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