Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus

Posted by Max Lehmann on August 7, 2013

What is Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus?

Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus is a ransomware application that blocks your desktop access and then accuses you of committing a series of crimes. The objective of Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus is financial gain, and it makes use of a certified tool to achieve it – fear. This infection tries to pass for a representative of law enforcement authorities, and as a result, it wants you to believe that your computer has been locked by the Canadian Ministry of Public Safety.

Nevertheless, we can easily recognize the malware tactics as it is not the first ransomware infection to target Canadian users. You need to ignore the notification on your screen point blank and remove Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus from your PC as soon as you can. test

Where does Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus come from?

It is very easy to determine the origins of Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus. This infection belongs to Ukash Virus group, and it actually is just another name for the Ministry of Public Safe Canada Virus. Other ransomware infections that have terrorized computer users in Canada include Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus, Cybercrime Investigation Department Virus and so on. All these infections follow the same pattern – they deny you desktop access and then ask for a ransom fee.

What does Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus do?

The ransom fee is said to be a “fine” which you have to pay in order to avoid criminal charges:

ATTENTION!
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 have violated Declaration on non-proliferation of child pornography. You are accused of committing the crime envisaged by Article 161 of Canada criminal law.

As you can see Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus wants to make you into a criminal, or at least it wants you to think so. It says that the only way to avoid the criminal sentence and to unlock your computer involves paying the CAD $100 fine via Ukash. The alternative payment system is what gives the ransomware family its name, but it has nothing in common with these cyber criminals. Ukash is used only because it allows collecting ransom payments without ban accounts or credit cards.

How to remove Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus?

Obviously, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus will not unlock your computer even if you transfer thousands of dollars to the people behind this infection. You need to take care of this issue yourself. Check out the instructions below this description and unlock your desktop. Then invest in a powerful computer security program to remove Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police Virus automatically, along with Urausy Trojan and other possible malicious infections. Do not forget, that ransomware is often delivered onto your PC by Trojans, so be sure to scan your PC several times!

How to restore desktop access

Windows 8

Press Windows key and click Internet Explorer tile.
Enter http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/download-sph into the address bar and press Enter.
Click Run on the download dialog box and install SpyHunter.
Perform a full system scan.

Windows Vista & Windows 7

Restart your computer and tap F8 continuously.
When Advanced Boot Options menu appears, select Safe Mode with Networking and press Enter.
Access http://www.anti-spyware-101.com/spyhunter and download SpyHunter.
Install the program and scan your PC.

Windows XP