Police Cybercrime Virus

Posted by Sarah Stewart on September 16, 2013

What is Police Cybercrime Virus?

Police Cybercrime Virus is a computer threat classified as ransomware program. Its classification allows us to foresee what kind of behavior this infection exhibits. As you can most probably tell, Police Cybercrime Virus holds your computer hostage in hopes of exhorting your hard-earned money. The malicious program makes an impression that your computer has been locked due to your own illegal activity, and if you want to get your desktop back, you ought to pay a ransom fee. That is definitely not an option, and you need to restore your desktop access as soon as possible. Then, remove Police Cybercrime Virus, and scan your computer in search for other infections.

Where does Police Cybercrime Virus come from?

Although Police Cybercrime Virus infects primarily computer users in Canada, it has nothing to do with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. This infection is part of a huge group of infections from Ukash Virus family. There are hundreds of similar infections intended for almost every wired country in the world, and other ransomware programs from the same group include Ministry of Public Safety Canada Virus, Svensk National Bureau of Investigation Virus, FBI MoneyPak Virus and many others. test

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This particular batch of infections are distributed by Revoyem Trojan, which means that your computer has been infected with malware prior to Police Cybercrime Virus’s arrival.

What does Police Cybercrime Virus do?

It is more than obvious that this ransomware infection locks you out of your computer and displays a notification that supposedly has been sent by the Canadian law enforcement authorities:

The computer is locked by Internet Service Provider
Work your computer has been suspended on the grounds of viewing illegal content
All illegal activities on your computer, including photos and video from webcam, stored in a police database for further identification of the individual offender

The poor English grammar within the notification should be enough to convince you that Police Cybercrime Virus is just a computer threat that aims for your money, and you have committed nothing wrong. Do not be so hasty as to transfer the ransom fee via PaySafeCard or MoneyPak alternative payment systems. No matter how many hundreds of Canadian dollars you would transfer, Police Cybercrime Virus would not unlock your system; hence, you need to take care of this problem yourself.

How to remove Police Cybercrime Virus?

Since paying the fine is not an option, you should refer to the instructions below on how to unlock your desktop. Once you have your desktop back, invest in a powerful computer security program that will scan your system and will remove Police Cybercrime Virus along with other dangerous infections. Keep in mind, that with Police Cybercrime Virus you may have other computer threats installed as well (Trojan Revoyem being one of them), so the sooner you safeguard your system against these infections, the better.

How to restore desktop access

Windows 8

Press Windows key button and metro Start menu will open.
Click the built-in Internet explorer tile.
Type 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.
Run a full system scan.

Windows Vista & Windows 7

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

Windows XP