West Mercia Police Ukash

West Mercia Police Ukash, a dangerous ransomware infection, has been noticed attacking users in England. If your computer screen has been locked and a message demanding that you pay €100 in 48 hours, there is no doubt that this is cyber criminals trying to scam you. It accuses you of downloading pirate files: music, movies and software. Even if you actually have illegal files on your computer, you should know that an actual law enforcement unit would never proceed to act this way if they found out. Instead of believing the fake claims, you should remove West Mercia Police Ukash virus once and for all.

You will notice McAfee and SOPA/PIPA badges on the ransomware message, however, that only means that the cyber criminals behind this infection have minimal Photoshop skills. Such fake message is incredibly easy to make. They ask to pay the ransom via either Ukash or PaySafeCard payment systems, which you may know as genuine. That is true, and the criminals take advantage of them simply because it would be nearly impossible to track them down using them. The criminals use scaring tactics to make you pay:

Your Computer has been locked!

All activity of this computer has been recorded.  If you use webcam, videos and pictures were saved for identification <…> You can be clearly identified by your IP address<…>

In this instant West Mercia Police Ukash is not lying, your computer is locked; however, definitely not permanently. Following the instructions below this article, you will be able to get it back to normal and delete West Mercia Police Ukash virus. However, the ransomware is lying when it accuses you of having illegal files. Admittedly, it is a smarter way of trying to scare you than unbelievable crimes previous ransomware infections, like Internet Police Department Virus, NSA Virus or Poliisihallituksen Virus, have been known to accuse people of. Plus, its suggested punishments – 3 years of imprisonment and confiscating the computer – are actually quite plausible were West Mercia Police Ukash an actual law enforcement unit.

Once again, the only course of action once your computer is infected is to remove West Mercia Police Ukash virus. Unfortunately, its removal is a considerably complicated process. You can easily harm your computer’s system if you have not ever deleted ransomware on your own before. Before choosing the manual removal option, make sure you really do have the experience needed. If you do not, there is no need to have somebody else fix it for you; you can quite easily do that on your own with the help of an automatic malware removal tool. It will also protect your system from ransomware infections in the future.

West Mercia Police Ukash virus Removal Guide

Windows XP:

1. Restart your computer.
2. Wait for the BIOS screen to disappear.
3. Tap F8 repeatedly.
4. With the keyboard arrows, choose Safe Mode with Networking.
5. Press Enter.
6. Click YES on the dialogue box.
7. Select Start menu.
8. Launch RUN.
9. Type in msconfig, click OK.
10. Go to the Startup tab.
11. Select Disable All, and then OK.
12. Download an automatic ransomware removal tool.
13. Restart your computer normally.
14. Install the removal tool.
15. Run it and get rid of West Mercia Police Ukash virus.

Windows 8:

1. Press the Windows key.
2. In Metro UI screen, open your browser.
3. Go to http://www.pcthreat.com/download-sph to download SpyHunter.
4. Install and run it.
5. Get rid of West Mercia Police Ukash virus.

Windows Vista/7:

1. Restart your computer.
2. When the BIOS screen disappears, tap F8 repeatedly.
3. Select Safe Mode with Networking with the keyboard arrows.
4. Press Enter.
5. Download and install SpyHunter.
6. Run it and eliminate West Mercia Police Ukash virus.