Certpolice.info

Certpolice.info is a website that hosts software exploit-detecting code (also known as 'exploit kits'), which could be used to install threats onto your PC automatically. At the current time, malware researchers also estimate that Certpolice.info is being used as part of Windows locker Trojan-based attacks, which may use Certpolice.info to display fraudulent legal alerts and ransom demands. Suspicious Certpolice.info pop-ups and any other contact with Certpolice.info should be resolved through the thorough use of all relevant anti-malware solutions, both to remove the software causing the Certpolice.info hijacks and to remove any other threats installed by Certpolice.info, itself.

The Police at Your Door Whose Knock You can Ignore

Sub-variants of ransomware, such as the ever-popular Windows locker Trojans particularly known for targeting many European nations and the Americas, may use Web pages to display their attacks. However, these Web pages just as frequently pull double-duty: by including code meant to distribute threats or facilitate other attacks, along with the fake police warnings that so often characterize ransomware-based attacks. Certpolice.info is one of the Web domains estimated to have involvement in these activities and is a confirmed host for exploits that may launch automatic attacks against any vulnerable PC.

Even completely passive exposure to Certpolice.info may allow Certpolice.info to infect your PC, but its attacks may be the result of a previous compromise by additional PC threats that are still undergoing analysis. Symptoms of these attacks bear the most resemblance to the aftereffects of a Police Trojan's payload, such as being unable to terminate (or minimize) a Certpolice.info pop-up, or to open other applications. Malware researchers also saw recent cases of Certpolice.info using fraudulent pretenses to harvest information that adds the classification of 'phishing site' to its list of sins.

Certifying Your Browser as Safe from Certpolice.info

Browser-based protection is an important aspect of blocking attacks that might issue forth from Certpolice.info. Along with blocking scripts by default, malware researchers also might encourage the general use of PC security suites that can automatically block threatening domains, although, unfortunately, only a minority of anti-malware companies have confirmed that Certpolice.info is threatening. Updating your software, particularly for popular Windows programs, also can block many of the exploits that Certpolice.info might use to harm your PC.

Even if all of these precautions are applied, being redirected to Certpolice.info repeatedly is a clear sign of other threats most likely already being on your hard drive. With Police Trojans and other attacks exploiting Web browsers continuing their campaigns well into 2014 with no statistical slowdowns, it behooves all PC users to guard against common means of security compromises, such as hacked websites, spam e-mail attachments and mislabeled social network links.