Hillstone Secure Connect

A guide to uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect from your PC

This page contains complete information on how to remove Hillstone Secure Connect for Windows. The Windows release was developed by Hillstone Networks. Further information on Hillstone Networks can be seen here. Usually the Hillstone Secure Connect program is placed in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect folder, depending on the user's option during setup. C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\uninstall.exe is the full command line if you want to remove Hillstone Secure Connect. Hillstone Secure Connect's primary file takes around 818.50 KB (838144 bytes) and is named SecureConnect.exe.

The executable files below are part of Hillstone Secure Connect. They occupy an average of 2.28 MB (2392486 bytes) on disk.

• Uninstall.exe (65.91 KB)
• LiveUpdate.exe (414.00 KB)
• preinstall.exe (21.00 KB)
• SecureConnect.exe (818.50 KB)
• SSLChannel.exe (908.50 KB)
• UpdateConfig.exe (29.00 KB)
• tapinstall.exe (79.50 KB)

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The current web page applies to Hillstone Secure Connect version 1.3.3.1133 alone. You can find below a few links to other Hillstone Secure Connect releases:

• 1.4.3.1151
• 1.4.3.1166
• 1.4.3.1157
• 1.4.5.1227
• 1.4.4.1202
• 1.4.5.1233
• 1.4.4.1211
• 1.4.9.1271
• 1.4.8.1257
• 1.4.7.1247
• 1.3.3.1135
• 1.4.8.1259
• 1.4.7.1253
• 1.4.4.1185
• 1.4.6.1246
• 1.2.6.1131
• 1.4.6.1238
• 1.5.8.1112
• 1.3.3.1139
• 1.4.4.1191
• 1.4.8.1255
• 1.4.3.1180
• 1.2.0.1112
• 1.4.9.1260
• 1.4.4.1208
• 1.4.3.1150
• 1.3.2.1124
• 1.4.1.1142
• 1.4.8.1256
• 1.4.1.1141
• 1.4.7.1250
• 1.4.7.1252
• 1.4.6.1243
• 1.4.5.1218
• 1.4.8.1254
• 5.4.3.1155
• 1.4.3.1164
• 1.2.0.1098
• 1.4.5.1234
• 1.4.5.1226
• 1.2.0.1116
• 1.3.3.1134
• 1.4.9.1265
• 1.4.8.1258
• 1.2.6.1130
• 1.4.3.1154
• 1.4.7.1251
• 1.4.5.1235

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Following the uninstall process, the application leaves some files behind on the computer. Some of these are shown below.

Folders found on disk after you uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect from your computer:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Hillstone Secure Connect

Generally, the following files remain on disk:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\2052\MUI.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\2052\ReadMe.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\addadapter.bat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\deladapter.bat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\DetectAV.dll
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\DetectAVLog.txt
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\LiveUpdate.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\preinstall.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\SecureConnect.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\signatures.ini
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\SSLChannel.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\bin\UpdateConfig.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\cert\cert1386746223
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\cert\cert642942686
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\driver\hssvc.cat
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\driver\hssvc.inf
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\driver\hssvc.sys
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\driver\tapinstall.exe
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\Uninstall.exe
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\360se6\User Data\Default\Local Storage\http_hillstone-secure-connect.software.informer.com_0.localstorage
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\360se6\User Data\Default\Local Storage\http_hillstone-secure-connect.updatestar.com_0.localstorage
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect\SecurecConfig.xml
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Hillstone Secure Connect\Hillstone Secure Connect.lnk
• C:\Users\%user%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Hillstone Secure Connect\Uninstall.lnk

Use regedit.exe to manually remove from the Windows Registry the data below:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Hillstone\Hillstone Secure Connect
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Hillstone Secure Connect

Open regedit.exe in order to delete the following values:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\SecureConnect\ImagePath

A way to uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect from your PC using Advanced Uninstaller PRO

Hillstone Secure Connect is a program released by Hillstone Networks. Sometimes, users decide to uninstall it. This can be efortful because deleting this by hand requires some skill related to PCs. The best SIMPLE solution to uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect is to use Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take the following steps on how to do this:





1. If you don't have Advanced Uninstaller PRO on your Windows system, install it. This is good because Advanced Uninstaller PRO is one of the best uninstaller and general tool to take care of your Windows system.

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• navigate to Download Link
• download the setup by clicking on the green DOWNLOAD button
• install Advanced Uninstaller PRO

2. Start Advanced Uninstaller PRO. Take some time to get familiar with the program's design and number of tools available. Advanced Uninstaller PRO is a very useful system utility.

3. Click on the General Tools category


4. Press the Uninstall Programs button


5. All the applications installed on your PC will be shown to you

6. Navigate the list of applications until you find Hillstone Secure Connect or simply click the Search field and type in "Hillstone Secure Connect". The Hillstone Secure Connect program will be found automatically. After you click Hillstone Secure Connect in the list of applications, some information regarding the program is available to you:

• Safety rating (in the lower left corner). The star rating tells you the opinion other users have regarding Hillstone Secure Connect, from "Highly recommended" to "Very dangerous".
• Reviews by other users - Click on the Read reviews button.
• Details regarding the application you are about to remove, by clicking on the Properties button.

7. Press the Uninstall button. A confirmation window will appear. Confirm the uninstall by pressing Uninstall. Advanced Uninstaller PRO will automatically remove Hillstone Secure Connect.


8. After removing Hillstone Secure Connect, Advanced Uninstaller PRO will ask you to run an additional cleanup. Click Next to start the cleanup. All the items that belong Hillstone Secure Connect that have been left behind will be found and you will be able to delete them. By uninstalling Hillstone Secure Connect with Advanced Uninstaller PRO, you are assured that no registry items, files or folders are left behind on your disk.

Your computer will remain clean, speedy and ready to serve you properly.

Disclaimer

This page is not a recommendation to uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect by Hillstone Networks from your PC, nor are we saying that Hillstone Secure Connect by Hillstone Networks is not a good application for your computer. This page only contains detailed info on how to uninstall Hillstone Secure Connect supposing you decide this is what you want to do. Here you can find registry and disk entries that our application Advanced Uninstaller PRO stumbled upon and classified as "leftovers" on other users' computers.