POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus

Posted: May 22, 2013

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Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	94

First Seen:	May 22, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus is a Police Trojan specialized for attacking residents of Austria, but with a strong resemblance to previous PC threats that have been known to target other countries (particularly other European ones). With pop-up warnings that accuse you of using your computer to commit various crimes of a common and potentially embarrassing nature, the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus tries to block your computer and entice you into paying a fictitious legal fine. Any money transferred through the means POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus espouses only will be sent to criminals, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts stress that doing so will not unlock your computer from a POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus's infection. However, what a ransom will not do, anti-malware products are perfectly capable of accomplishing by deleting the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus.

The Cyber Bug that Comes with a Fake Badge – and Real Handcuffs

The POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus pretends to be affiliated with the Austrian police, but actually is a criminal program that isn't capable of detecting any illegitimate uses of your computer. By displaying a borderless pop-up window that includes a general legal alert, the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus attempts to make its victims pay a Paysafecard or Ukash fee, which is claimed to remove the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus's warning message and allow you to use your computer anew. However, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't seen any signs of the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus actually being able to unlock itself, and, of course, Austria's police are not involved in any POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus attacks – except in their efforts to put a stop to them.

The POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus's attacks heavily resemble many other Police Ransomware Trojans of past campaigns that SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have examined. Examples of some other Police Trojans like the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus include the Cybercrime Investigation Department Virus, the 'Ihr Computer Wurde Gesperrt und Alle Daten Verschlüsselt Wurden' Virus, 'Ihr Computer Wurde Blockiert' Ransomware, the Auf Ihrem Computer ist infiziert Virus and 'Achtung! Aus Sicherheitsgründen wurde Ihr Windowssystem blockiert' Ransomware.

How to Vaccinate Your PC Against the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus

Unlike technically-categorized viruses that infect other files as a way of distributing themselves, the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus does not handle its own distribution methods. While this may simplify your case of removing a POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus, an incomplete disinfection of your PC can cause the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus to be reinstalled by whatever PC threat (such as Zlob or other families of Trojan downloaders) is responsible for the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus's being on your PC in the first place.

A complete deletion of all PC threats related to a POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus can be accomplished by, first and foremost, trying to disable all malicious software via Safe Mode, a system boot from a flash drive or similar means. After doing so, you can use any anti-malware product that you like to remove the POLIZEI Cyber Crime Investigation Department Virus, its pop-up and all related Trojans – without any need whatsoever to pay a ransom.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following messages's were detected:

#	Message
1	Der Betrag der Strafzahlung beläuft sich auf 100€. Sie können die Strafzahlung per PaySafeCard oder Ukash entrichten.
2	Die Strafe kann jeweils nur 72 Stunden nach Begehen der Straftat errichtet werden. Nach Ablauf der Frist von 72 Stunden verfällt die Möglichkeit einer Strafzahlung und innerhalb der nächsten 72 Stunden wird automatisch gegen Sie ein Strafverfahren eingeleitet.
3	Polizei Cyber Crime Investigation Department ACHTUNG! Ihr Computer ist aus einem oder mehreren der unten aufgeführten Gründe gesperrt. Sie haben gegen das Gesetz über „Urheberrecht und verwandte Schutzrechte“ (Video, Musik, Software) verstoßen und unrechtmäßig urheberrechtlich Inhalte genutzt bzw. verbreitet und somit gegen Art. 128 des Strafgesetzbuches der Bundesrepublik Deutschland verstoßen.