TrustDefender - How to remove

TrustDefender is just another malware from Wini family which together with its clones IronProtector and ShieldSoldier showed up in the beginning of October. All these rogue anti-spywares are known to be spread by Trojans that pretend to be video codecs required for watching something online. If you click on such alert, instead of installing a codec you let Trojans inside that additionally download TrustDefender. Besides, the same Trojans drop some fake malware files and modify infected computer’s settings to make this malware launched after every computer’s reboot.

Not only just Trust Defender is installed into your computer unnoticeably. A fake Windows Registry cleaning program called RegistryClever is also let inside and it is similarly to the previous threat configured to start automatically.

As a result, as soon as PC users login to Windows, TrustDefender and RegistryClever start their misleading campaign. That means that malwares will display tons of alerts, pop-up ads and notifications about various viruses and registry problems detected. TrustDefender starts posing to be scanning the system for viruses and then lists a great variety of infections. These files in reality are the same ones created by TrustDefender and its Trojans or the ones that are legitimate your system files. You should only ignore them.

The most important part of this misleading campaign is that you won’t be able to remove any of these “detections”. For that, users are usually asked paying the money for TrustDefender’s “registered version” which is foolishly reported to be the only one capable to remove these threats.  However, it is highly recommended not to pay any sum of money for this scam, because you will only support the scammers and will be left without nothing.

Warnings displayed by TrustDefender malware mostly look like that:

Reported Insecure Browsing: Navigation blocked
Insecure Internet activity. Thread of virus attack
Due to insecure Internet browsing your PC can easily get infected with viruses, worms and trojans without your knowledge, and that can lead to system slowdown, freezes, and crashes. Also insecure Internet activity can result in revealing your personal information. To get full advanced real-time protection for PC and Internet activity, register TrustDefender. We recommend you to protect your PC now continue safe Internet Browsing.

Security Center Alert!
Infiltration Alert!
Your computer is being attacked by an Internet Virus. It could be a password-stealing attack, a trojan-dropper or similar.
Do you want TrustDefender to block this attack?

Spyware Alert!
Your computer is infected with spyware. It could damage your critical files or expose your private data on the Internet. Click here to register your copy of TrustDefender and remove spyware threats from your PC.

When infected with TrustDefender, you should do the following: launch safe mode with networking and then run a full system scan with updated legitimate anti-spyware to find all the files of this scam. As you can see, this program has nothing positive and the only thing you can do to solve the problems is to remove Trust Defender. Use the removal guide listed below and clean your computer!

This removal guide is for rogue antivirus Trust Defender. There are other tools named the same and we have not reviewed them, so we neither recommend nor warn about them.

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