Strathclyde Police Virus

It will seem impossible to remove Strathclyde Police Virus, because this nasty infection is capable of paralyzing your system and disabling your access to the desktop. You will not be able to execute programs to detect and delete running malware, and even though the virus can work on its own, it is most likely that it has been dropped onto your computer by active Trojans. This means that behind your system’s paralysis and the ridiculous schemers could hide much more dangerous infections. This report will help you understand the tricks that cyber crooks have employed to make the virus as intimidating and will also help you remove Strathclyde Police Virus in no time.

Even though the British Strathclyde Police Virus is new in the world of ransomware its interface has been developed and applied months ago. Politie virus and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Virus are the most infamous clones designed to threaten Windows users living in the U.S. and Belgium. Nonetheless, if your PC has been infected with Tá do ríomhaire cosc curtha ar shárú ar dhlíthe na tíre Éirinn, Atenção! Seu computador e bloqueado! or any other recent viruses, you will also need to worry about unavoidable removal operations.

The main purpose of the virus is to lure out your money and this fake, screen-size notification will be used to trick you into complying with completely bogus demands. Please note the broken English this alert is presented with.

Attention!!!
The process of illegal activity is detected. According to UK law and Metropolitan Police Service and Strathclyde Police investigation your computer is locked! […]
Forbidden websites containing pornography, child pornography, Sodomy and called violence against children on, violent material toward people were visited from this IP-address!
Moreover and e-mail spam was sent you’re your computer, e-mails containing terroristic materials. This locking serves to stop your illegal activity.

After reading this fake alert, you should not even consider paying 100 pounds though Ukash or Paysafecard, first of all because this is likely to have no effect. Secondly, the presented notification is completely fictitious and the lock-down is illegal, which means that by paying the fine you would actually support schemers! Clearly, this is not what you need to do and our qualified malware research team has prepared instructions that will help you unlock the computer and delete Strathclyde Police Virus. Please note that you should not start any other tasks (except those regarding removal) after the computer is unlocked because the virus is capable or repeating the lock-down.

Windows Vista and Windows Vista:

1. Using the power button restart your computer.
2. Once the BIOS (information about your OS) screen disappears immediately start tapping F8 to access the Boot Menu. Repeat the process if it does not work first time.
3. Using arrow keys select Safe Mode with Networking and tap Enter.
4. Go to http://www.pcthreat.com/download-sph and download SpyHunter.
5. Install the application to have all existing malware deleted.

Windows XP:

1. Restart the computer.
2. Wait for the BIOS screen to disappear and start tapping the F8 button on the keyboard.
3. Within Advanced Options Menu select Safe Mode with Networking (use arrow keys).
4. If you are presented with “Windows is running in safe mode” warning – click Yes.
5. When the PC loads and you can access the desktop, click on the Start menu.
6. Launch RUN, type in “msconfig” and hit Enter or click OK.
7. Click on the Startup menu and click the Disable All button.
8. Download SpyHunter.
9. Restart the PC and install SpyHunter. Strathclyde Police Virus will be removed swiftly and reliably.