Trojan System Cleaner

Trend Micro PC-cillin

Trojan System Cleaner

PC-cillin automatically runs the Trojan System Cleaner (TSC) during initial installation, and every time Real-time Scan runs. The TSC detects the activity of Trojan horse programs, recovers system files which are modified by Trojans, stop their processes, and deletes files dropped from Trojans.

Traditional antivirus products only scan "files", they open files and check for virus code. But they don't check and clean system files and can't clean or delete Trojan horse programs (also known as Trojans) if it is already run in the system.

The TSC uses patterns to define how to clean a Trojan. These patterns are built into Trend Micro virus pattern files and are kept up-to-date. Whenever TSC is executed, it finds the newest pattern file and tries to read Trojan clean section from the pattern file.

See also:

Running the Trojan System Cleaner

About Trojans

How Trojans cause damage