Red Cross Antivirus is a fake antivirus program that spreads to computers through fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert
. The alert appears on the system out of nowhere and claims that a Trojan virus has been detected on your system. Because of this, you are recommended to get an antispyware solution.
The truth us that, this Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is a Trojan itself and it only wants to convince you into thinking your system is badly infected. Later on, the program gives a list of recommended programs and among 35 programs 5 of them are rogue programs. One of the 5 programs is Red Cross Antivirus.
You should be aware that Red Cross Antivirus is only seeking for your money but it will not provide the actual protection services for you. You are strongly recommended to contact your credit card company and dispute the charges if you have already made a payment for Red Cross Antivirus.
Even if you don't pay for it, a trial version of Red Cross Antivirus will cause tons of annoying consequences. It will terminate your legitimate Windows programs right when you attempt to run them. Instead of having your program loaded, you will receive a message stating that the program was forced to shut down due to security reasons and that it is very like that the application was infected by a malicious program which might pose a threat for the Operating System.
Actually the reason of this is to frighten computer users and make them purchase Red Cross Antivirus. You shouldn't trust this application and remove it from your system as soon as you can. You can use a removal guide of Red Cross Antivirus or simply run system scan with a reputable antispyware program.