Police & Gendarmerie Nationale virus

To protect yourself from such infections as Police & Gendarmerie Nationale Virus, you have to be very careful while browsing the Internet. This ransomware infection is associated with Cbeplay.P Trojan downloader that enters your system in secret, and then infect it with Police & Gendarmerie Nationale Virus, and other similar programs that pretend they deliver messages from local law enforcement authorities. Police & Gendarmerie Nationale Virus targets users in France. Supposedly the message displayed on your screen is sent by the National Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie Nationale) and the national police office (Police Nationale). The notification is screen-sized and it does not allow you to access your desktop. Therefore, this infection is also called screen-locker.

The users are not allow to access their desktops in order to scare them into believing that they have breached several important French laws, related to copyright and other cyber security. Police & Gendarmerie Nationale Virus is not the only infection that utilizes such scare tactics. For example, the ICE Cyber Crime Center Virus, European Cybercrime Centre Virus, Polizia Penitenziaria Virus and other similar infections also belong to the same group of Ukash Virus family. These ransomware infections are called "Ukash Group" because they make use of alternative payment systems to collect their ransom fees. In case of Police & Gendarmerie Nationale Virus, it uses Ukash and PaySafeCard. It demands the infected users to pay a 100 Euro fine within 24 hours, otherwise there might be legal consequences:

Activité illegal a été révélé!

Opéreations sur les activités illégales ont été détectés sur votre ordinateur.

Votre système d’exploitation a été verrouillé pour cette infraction. Vos actions sont considérées comme illégales en France et á l’Union européenne.

Pour level débloquer l’ordinateur, vous êtes oblige de payer une pénalité de 100 EUR. L’amende doit être confisqué, votre affaire devrait être renvoyée à la cour, et toutes les données de votre ordinateur seront supprimées.

Police & Gendarmerie Nationale virus threatens to send all of your data to the court, so they could initiate a legal case against you. Also, it says that if you try to unlock your computer yourself, all of your data will be formatted. Naturally, none of this is going to happen, because Police & Gendarmerie Nationale virus is by no means related to the French Police, but you have to unlock your computer yourself, if you want to access your desktop. That is so, because the infection has no intention of unblock your desktop. It only wants your money. To unlock the PC and continue with Police & Gendarmerie Nationale virus removal, follow the instructions below.

How to unlock your PC:

For Windows Vista & Windows 7

1. Reboot the PC and press F8 repeatedly.
2. Select Safe Mode with Networking and press Enter.
3. Go to http://www.pcthreat.com/download-sph and download SpyHunter.
4. Install the program and perform a full system scan.

For Windows XP

1. Restart your PC and tap F8 key continuously.
2. Use arrow key to navigate and select Safe Mode with Networking. Hit Enter.
3. Click Yes when confirmation box appears.
4. Download SpyHunter.
5. Open Start Menu and launch Run.
6. Type "msconfig" into Open box and press Enter.
7. Select Startup tab on System Configuration Utility.
8. Click Disable all and click OK to save changes.
9. Restart your computer in Normal Mode.
10. Install SpyHunter and continue with a full system scan.

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