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International Police Association (IAC) Virus

Posted by on September 3, 2012 1 comment
International Police Association (IAC) Virus

What would you do if you found an intimidating message asking you to pay a fine? This is what International Police Association (IAC) virus will ask you to do after it injects its codes into your PC’s system and disables access to your programs. You will find that the Internet connection is disabled, as well, and this is said to have been done because you have violated copyright laws. Even if you have, the actual International Police Association, more precisely, International Administration Center (IAC) Read more »

Your computer has been locked! Fake DOJ (FBI) warning

Posted by on September 3, 2012 No comments

You might find yourself being blamed for such horrible crimes as copyrighted material infringement or illegal and unethical abusive video storing by the “Your computer has been locked!” fake DOJ (FBI) warning. This bogus alert will seem to have been sent to you by the FBI Department of Justice, Read more »

Codec-C

Posted by on September 1, 2012 No comments

The World Wide Web is not nearly as safe as you would imagine, and such devious programs as Codec-C could be infiltrated into your personal computer via countless security vulnerabilities. It is possible that this infection would hide behind suspicious links, spam email attachments, bundled downloads and other drive-by downloads or could be installed by already activated malicious programs within the computer. Read more »

Hotbar Virus

Posted by on September 1, 2012 No comments
Hotbar Virus

Hotbar is an unnecessary toolbar that generates tons of annoying pop-up messages. The messages displayed to the infected user are not random. They are based on the user’s browsing habits that are monitored by Hotbar. The browser toolbar installed by this adware works on various browsers – Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, Firefox 3.6 and 4.0. We can also presuppose that Hotbar can function on the newest versions of the browsers as well. Read more »

Mariposa virus

Posted by on August 30, 2012 No comments

Mariposa virus, distributed by a group of worms and attributed to Butterfly Bot Kit or simply botnet, is a sly infection which has infected over 12 million computers around the world. The infection was released in 2009, but soon the FBI, Slovenian and Spanish Police arrested three men who were believed to be responsible for operating on the botnet, which was shut down afterwards. Read more »

BOO/TDss.O Trojan

Posted by on August 28, 2012 No comments

BOO/TDss.O is a dangerous Trojan which typically bypasses the most popular antivirus programs that are not updated and ready to fight this cunning infection off, or sometimes it happens that even if security tools detect the infection, they are not able to remove it. It is not enough to ignore this infection’s presence, because the Trojan severely affects the computer’s performance, and you cannot work on the PC properly. Read more »

Trojan.Kryptik

Posted by on August 28, 2012 No comments

Certain computer infections, like Trojan.Kryptik, slither into systems and act highly surreptitiously, which means that if they are running inside your Windows, you might not even know it until it is too late. Of course, there are a few signs that you should be aware of, as they could help you understand that something is corrupting your PC. Unfortunately, slow system’s performance, uncontrollable shut-downs, browser redirections and similar symptoms might all come at once, making your system barely operable and aggravating Trojan.Agent/Gen-Kryptik removal operations altogether. Read more »

West Yorkshire Police Virus

Posted by on August 22, 2012 No comments
West Yorkshire Police Virus

West Yorkshire Police Virus is another Ukash family infection that stands alongside another British residents targeting infection Metropolitan Police Scam or such international viruses as FBI Moneypak, Polícia de Segurança Pública Portuguese Virus, Buma Stemra Virus and various others. All of these devious programs work on the same basis of locking down targeted computers to force infected computers’ owners to pay a ransom of a considerably large sum of money. This report will show you the quickest way to remove West Yorkshire Police Virus; however, we firstly recommend taking a closer look at the devious infection. Read more »

Polícia de Segurança Pública Portuguese Virus

Posted by on August 21, 2012 1 comment
Polícia de Segurança Pública Portuguese Virus

Polícia de Segurança Pública Portuguese Virus is a piece of ransomware that sneaks into the system of a targeted computer and claims that the user will be able to use the computer as usual only if a fee is paid. In the case of this virus, you would have to pay a charge of €100 to restore all the settings of your OS. Once in the system, the infection disables access to your desktop and other programs, does not allow you to connect to the Internet, etc. All in all, it keeps the computer locked until you give up and pay a ransom fee, which you should not do. Therefore, remove Policia de Seguranca Publica Portuguese Virus so that your computer can run normally. Read more »

Cuerpo National De Policia Virus

Posted by on August 20, 2012 No comments
Cuerpo National De Policia Virus

Cuerpo National De Policia Virus is a variant of the FBI Moneypak ; hence, if you can log onto your PC but cannot perform any other actions and find an alert message in a yellow background, there is no doubt that your computer is infected with one of the FBI virus’ clones. Cuerpo National De Policia Virus is a Spanish version of the virus, and there are many other versions of the threat in different countries, including Poland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal,USA and others. Read more »