GARDA Virus

What is GARDA Virus?

GARDA Virus is a computer infection, or a Trojan horse, which is categorized as ransomware. It can get to the PC in different ways of social engineering and makes unauthorized changes in the system, which ends up with lock-down of the system. When GARDA Virus or any other ransomware infections is installed, no activities can be undertaken. You will not be able to use the machine as instead of the desktop you will see the GARDA warning, which is presented in order to threaten the user and make him or her pay a considerable sum of money.

How does the virus attempt to deceive you?

There are tens of various interfaces of the Trojan infections which paralyze the systems, each of which is written in a different language. Moreover, the warning contains the logos of the local or international institutions which deal with crime or cyber crime. In the case of GARDA Virus, the Guardians of the Peace of Ireland is presented.

In the U.S. ransomware warning, the FBI is presented; as a result, malware researchers label it “FBI Virus”. Additionally, there are some infections whose warnings bear several headings, so several names are used to refer to them. For instance, Australian Communications and Media Authority virus and AFP Crime Commission virus refer to a single computer infection.

The wording of the misleading notifications does not change much. All of them accuse the user of being related to the use of copyrighted of pirated material, and so on. Here is what you can find in the GARDA warning:

Your computer has been blocked up for safety reasons listed below.

You are accused of viewing/storage and/or dissemination of banned pornography (child pornography/zoophilia/rape etc).

You can settle the fine with Ukash or PaySafeCard vouchers.

In order to unlock the computer, the user is required to pay a fine of 100 Euros. Do not pay the money as there is no guarantee that the computer will be unlocked. Moreover, unlike some other ransomware infections, GARDA Virus provides only one service for paying the money, which is Ukash.

How to remove GARDA Virus

Our Anti-Spyware-101.com team recommends that you do not wait and implement SpyHunter as this anti-spyware program is powerful enough to kill the threat in questions. Moreover, this real-time security tool will safeguard your privacy, so do not wait and get rid of the threat.

GARDA Virus Removal

Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Restart the computer.
2. Once the BIOS startup screen loads, tap the F8 key.
3. Using the arrow keys, select Safe Mode with Networking and press Enter.
4. Go to http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/download-sph and download SpyHunter.
5. Install the application and scan the PC.

Windows XP

1. Reboot the computer.
2. Wait for the BIOS startup screen to load and tap the F8 key.
3. Highlight Safe Mode with Networking using the up/down arrow keys and press Enter.
4. Click Yes on the dialog box.
5. Open the Start menu.
6. Launch Run.
7. Type msconfig in the open box and press OK.
8. On the Start tab, click Disable All and then click Apply.
9. Download SpyHunter.
10. Restart the computer.
11. Install the program you have downloaded.

Windows 8

1. Press the Window key to get to the Start screen.
2. Click the Internet Explorer tile.
3. Go to http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/download-sph and download the spyware removal tool.
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