TRE Antivirus Removal

TRE Antivirus is known to highjack the users desktop. This is a clone of Soft Soldier, Security Soldier and several other identical fake antivirus clients. Here are the exact removal instructions to fully remove this software from your computer.

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• Any Trojans belonging to the Winisoft bot network. They are the #1 way to spread TRE Antivirus around.
• Beware of any fake online scanners websites ! Always check them twice.
• Be careful about those Trojans that masquerade as Flash updates required to watch an online video.

Hackers will enter or build a given website and put TRE Antivirus to work as 'drive by download'. So the next time someone is visiting such a website, the malware will be pushed as a download onto the user's computer. Without some effective security tools or if the threat is a new one, you're likely to get infected. Once inside your computer system, TRE Antivirus will create lots of fake files, then will scan your system (false scans…) and will display windows saying you have lots of infections. You will then get the TRE Antivirus window with that particular message you saw at the beginning of this document. Please, never buy that registered version of TRE Antivirus.

All those infections are but fake ones. TRE Antivirus was designed to try to trick you and steal your money. TRE Antivirus will  block many anti-virus programs  It will also block access to many security related websites.

Some symptoms of TRE Antivirus:

• Bogus Scan results
• Auto Scans on Start-up
• Warning coming out of a fake shield in the system tray
• pop-ups and re-directs to the fake software's website
• constant warnings of being infected as well as false statements of other trojans

Manual removal instructions for TRE Antivirus ( Please read our disclaimer below )

Kill TRE Antivirus processes: ( Learn How to Kill a Process Here. Opens in new Window )

• treav.exe
• uninstall.exe

We do recommend you run a full scan using SpyHunter. Even if you do not intend on purchasing the product it will help to stop the virus from re-installing and re-activating while you manually remove it. Also it will inform you of any new changes to the file names. You may need this if it mutates. Delete TRE Antivirus registry values: ( Learn How to Edit Registry Here. Opens in new Window )

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TRE AntiVirus
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\TRE AntiVirus
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TRE AntiVirus
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "TRE AntiVirus"

Delete files: ( Hint ) Most of these files will be in the %Program Files\Protection System\ directory.

• c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\TRE AntiVirus.lnk
• c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TRE AntiVirus
• c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TRE AntiVirus\1 TRE AntiVirus.lnk
• c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TRE AntiVirus\2 Homepage.lnk
• c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\TRE AntiVirus\3 Uninstall.lnk
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\always_delete.xml
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\always_skip.xml
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\main_config.xml
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\treav.exe
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\uninstall.exe
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\quarantine
• c:\Program Files\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\quarantine\quarantine.xml

Delete directories: ( Please note that in most cases everything in this folder can be deleted. Just be sure it's the correct folder 😉

• %CommonPrograms%\TRE AntiVirus
• %ProgramFiles%\TRE AntiVirus Software
• %ProgramFiles%\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus
• %ProgramFiles%\TRE AntiVirus Software\TRE AntiVirus\quarantine

Outside Resources:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-tre-antivirus

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