What is Ministere de L'interieur Virus?
When a threatening message blocks your desktop it is only natural for you to panic and follow the instructions you see on the screen. However, that is not the case with the Ministere de L'interieur Virus infection. If you do everything Ministere de L'interieur Virus tells you to, you will lose your money and your computer will remain blocked. You will not be able to access your desktop no matter what, because Ministere de L'interieur Virus does all it can to coerce you into paying your money for something you haven't done.
Ministere de L'interieur Virus is a part of Ukash Virus family. It is a ransomware application that pretends to be an official message from the Ministry of Interior in France. Ministere de L'interieur Virus is distributed by Reveton Trojan via drive-by downloads, and this interface is one of the French Ukash versions. Police Nationale Virus and Sacem Virus are the other two prominent infections from the French group of Ukash infections. Ministere de L'interieur Virus works pretty much the same as other Ukash viruses - it displays a message in French that says the user has violated quite a few articles from the French copyright law and what not.
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It accuses the user of downloading and storing various pirated media, including videos, software, music. Also, the user is accused of distributing material of pornographic nature. Then Ministere de L'interieur Virus adds that the user also has material containing child pornography and has been visiting websites related to terrorist organizations.
If that weren't enough, Ministere de L'interieur Virus claims that all the videos and pictures shot by the user's webcam will be used for identification, giving the impression that the user is currently watched by law enforcement authorities:
Votre ordinateur a ete bloque!
Toute activite dans cet ordinateur est enregistree. En cas de l'utilisation du camera Web, tour video et photo sont gardes pour l'indeficiation.
However, Ministere de L'interieur Virus also offers a way out - you simply need to pay a 100 Euro release fee, and it all will be over:
Pour debloquer votre ordinateur et eviter l'action penale, vous devez faire un paiement d'un montant de 100 Euro.
Do not pay the fine, otherwise you will lose your money for good. Ministere de L'interieur Virus will not unlock your computer and all of the charges against your are fake. Erase Ministere de L'interieur Virus from your computer following these steps:
- Reboot your computer and before Windows logo shows up, press F8.
- Select Safe Mode with Networking from the System boot menu and press Enter.
- When the system loads open your Internet browser and download SpyHunter.
- Install SpyHunter and remove Ministere de L'interieur Virus.
If you have Windows XP:
- Follow the steps above from 1 to 3.
- Open Start menu and launch RUN.
- Type "msconfig" into RUN box and press Enter.
- Click the Startup tab on the System Configuration menu and uncheck all programs on the list. Click OK to save changes and exit the menu.
- Restart your computer in Normal mode and install SpyHunter.
- Run SpyHunter and remove Ministere de L'interieur Virus.
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