Anti-spyware 101

It is not difficult to determine whether EC3 Europol Virus has entered your operating Windows system. All you have to do is look at the screen-locking notification and find the EC3 Europol logo. As you may already know, EC3 stands for European Cybercrime Center – a department which is administered by the Europol. This international law enforcement agency is meant to stop cyber criminals and their malignant schemes. Unfortunately, in this case the name of the reputable department may help schemers themselves. Cyber crooks may infect your PC only if it is not protected by reliable malware detection and removal tools. Read more »

ICSPA Virus is a computer threat that is classified as ransomware infection. It means that it holds your computer hostage and then demands a ransom fee for unlocking your desktop. There are many versions of this infection, localized for different countries. Each of the ICSPA Virus features a logo of the local police authorities, but the common thing is the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance logo on the right side of the notification. Hence the name of the infection - ICSPA virus. Despite the fact, that everything looks legitimate, there is no connection between ICSPA Virus and law enforcement authorities in various countries. Read more »

United Kingdom Police Virus is a ransomware infection which can easily infect your PC if you do not have a powerful anti-virus tool or if it is not powerful enough to fight various threats off. The major goal of the virus is to make you pay a release fee of 100 pounds. Unlike FBI Cybercrime Division virus, this threat requires that you pay the money via Ukash or Paysafecard. We advise you against paying the money as it is enough to install and launch a reliable spyware removal tool so that the fraudulent warning disappears from the screen. Read more »

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus is a Windows infection which is represented through a misleading notification forwarded by cyber criminals imitating the reputable Canadian law enforcement organization. If this infection is running on the computer, you must have noticed that access to the desktop has been removed and you cannot run Task Manager to terminate malignant processes. As a matter of fact, many Windows users do not even realize that their computers have been locked illegally, only because the alert through which the scam is operated is extremely misguiding. Read more »

Cyber criminals have renewed ransomware virus attacks with the help of Urausy Trojan which changes its interfaces according to the targeted country. If you live in the U.S., your PC may be infected with FBI Cybercrime Division Virus (International Cyber Security Protection Alliance) which will disable access to the system and display a full-screen hoax message which is designed to look as if it was created by a law enforcement agency. The fact that the message has the credentials of the ICSPA and FBI Cybercrime Division does not mean that you can trust it. Moreover, the warning is not related to the Microsoft, even they there is a statement “Supported and Protected by Microsoft”. Read more »