TrustWarrior is another malicious security program that was created in the tradition of other harmful rogue like SoftSafeness, SafetyKeeper and SaveKeeper. These type of program commonly spread through scam websites or websites pretending to be a security center. Also a help from Trojan will install this program on computers without being notice by the users. Trojan can penetrate to computers without being detected by an antivirus programs by using security vulnerabilities.
If successfully enters the computer, TrustWarrior will start promoting itself by frequent pop-up alerts and warning messages about potential computer threats. To clean it, users must proceed to their payment website and buy the registered version first. Do not waste your money with this useless software. If you have this on your system, remove it immediately and avoid executing any link it presented.
What are the Symptoms of Rogue Infection?
It will scan computer and produce false results.
It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TrustWarrior
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall\TrustWarrior
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\WindowsUpdate\Reporting\RebootWatch
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TrustWarrior
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root \LEGACY_TRUSTWARRIORSVC
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \TrustWarriorSvc
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “TrustWarrior”
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “xinoprpc.exe”
The threat will drop the following malicious files:
- c:\Program Files\TrustWarrior Software
- c:\Program Files\TrustWarrior Software\TrustWarrior
- c:\Program Files\TrustWarrior Software\TrustWarrior\TrustWarrior.exe
- c:\Program Files\TrustWarrior Software\TrustWarrior\uninstall.exe
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\TrustWarrior.lnk
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TrustWarrior
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TrustWarrior\1 TrustWarrior.lnk
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TrustWarrior\2 Homepage.lnk
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TrustWarrior\3 Uninstall.lnk
- c:\WINDOWS\1074hazktool7905.bin
- c:\WINDOWS\10a89acz5oor1785.cpl
- c:\WINDOWS\10z58s9ambo54d0.exe
- c:\WINDOWS\system32\52d39tea522z.cpl
- c:\WINDOWS\system32\52z6ba5kdoor21529.dll
- c:\WINDOWS\system32\5309zddwar5515.cpl
- %Temp%\Local Settings\Temp\xinoprpc.exe
How to Remove TrustWarrior Manually
1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
– After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
– From the selections, Select SafeMode
2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
– Click Start > Run
– Type in the field, regedit
– Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary
3. Delete malicious file/files that the threat added:
– Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
– If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the file.
– If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.
4. Scan computer with Antivirus Program
– Update antivirus program
– Scan computer and delete all detected threats.
