Remove Trust Cleaner. Removal instructions

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Trust Cleaner is a trojan that displays an icon in the system tray. This icon shows a message, which says that the compromised computer is infected with dangerous spyware parasites, and asks the user to download and install a removal program, which actually is Trust Cleaner, corrupt illegally distributed spywarer remover. The trojan also changes desktop wallpaper to fake warning message, hijackts the web browser and redirects the user to undesirable web sites. Furthermore, it can serve unsolicited pop-up advertisements and install certain adware parasites. Trust Cleaner may also try to download and install the corrupt spyware remover. The parasite automatically runs on every Windows startup.

Trust Cleaner properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Trust Cleaner manual removal:

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Kill processes:
srsvc.exe, tctool.exe, ticads.exe, trustinpopups.exe, trust cleaner.exe, ttu.exe

HELP:
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Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Trust Cleaner
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\TrustIn Popups
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page=C:\Windows\local.html
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{6BBD6756-F9BA-4A7E-8C94-A801F740A608}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{DA7FF3F8-08BE-4CAC-BC00-94D91C6AE7F4}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{F365382D-CF21-45BA-80CF-B868C6ED9634}

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
srsvc.exe, tctool.exe, ticads.exe, trustinpopups.exe, trust cleaner.exe, ttu.exe, tu.exe, ticont.dll, tisa.dll, trustin.dll, wschtm35.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\Trust Cleaner
C:\Program Files\TrustIn Bar
C:\Program Files\TrustIn Contextual
C:\Program Files\TrustIn Popups
C:\Program Files\TrustIn Search
Misc:
Exact file location:
trustin.dll - C:\Program Files\TrustIn Bar
trust cleaner.exe - C:\Program Files\Trust Cleaner
trustinpopups.exe - C:\Program Files\TrustIn Popups
srsvc.exe, wschtm35.dll - C:\Windows\Temp or C:\Winnt\Temp
tctool.exe, ticads.exe, ttu.exe, tu.exe, ticont.dll, tisa.dll - C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32 or C:\Winnt\System32

Information added: 2006-06-14 10:04:45
Information updated: 2006-06-14 10:04:45

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