What is Police Cybercrime Investigation Department?
Police Cybercrime Investigation Department is what’s known as a Ransomware infection. Currently it looks like they are attempting to be the Canadian police. The warnings given off by this virus are false and not true. It’s a scam.
How Did I get infected with Police Cybercrime Investigation Department?
There are many different ways users can get infected with this virus. One is from following a link in an e-mail that points to a webpage that then exploits security holes in your browser or operating system. Users can also be tricked into installing the virus by installing a program that belive to be a security update of video software. It’s only after the install that the user finds out they were tricked into installing a virus.
What is Police Cybercrime Investigation Department Doing to My Computer Right Now?
It is not doing damage to files or stealing personal information. It will however highjack your browser settings and make it hard for you to open and run programs. If you have a webcam then it will take a picture of you. I know this sounds scary. It is. The idea of these criminals is to make the end user feel like they did something wrong and that they now know exactly who you are from recording your IP and taking an image of you.
The warning about you surfing child porn or stealing music and or software is just threre to scare you into paying the bogus fine. A similar threat has been out for a while called the FBI Money Pak. See image below for details. You can see it’s basically the same warning and scam. Just a different layout and some new wording. The scam is still the same.
Police Cybercrime Investigation Department
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You should remove Police Cybercrime Investigation Department as soon as possible. This guide covers easy methods of doing so and will work for you.
Police Cybercrime Investigation Department Manual Removal Procedures
The first step you must take in order to remove Police Cybercrime Investigation Department is to stop the following process.
- The file is totally random and will even include underscoresthe example we have is. Example:0_0u_l.exe
The file is located at C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Random exe file Example:0_0u_l.exe
If it not under the AppData Folder you can check in the Local and Roaming folder within the AppData folder. Keep in mind that this is a hidden folder and you may need to unhide hidden files and folders. http://www.removevirus.org/show-hidden-files-and-folders
To Stop this process you can
A. Browse to the file location shown below and re-name the file first and then restart your computer. Then browse to that file location again and delete the file.
B. Boot into Safe Mode and delete the file
C: Log-into another users account and see if you can delete the file.
D: Start the Task Manager the very second you login and terminate the process that way.
Once you have deleted the above executable, Police Cybercrime Investigation Department will no longer be running. At this time you need to run a full
virus scan. RUN THE SCAN!. We recommend SpyHunter . You need to ensure no other viruses are on your computer. So many people skip this very simple step. Take an extra few minutes and ensure you have all the viruses removed.
If you find this threat too hard to remove yourself and need an expert we recommend http://www.pcninja.com. They charge far less than others and are great at what they do.
Police Cybercrime Investigation Department Directories:
- %AppData%\Random exe file Example:0_0u_l.exe
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