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. Remove Trust Cleaner, removal instructions
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