Safestep-police.org

As one of the many websites with a vested interest in misleading its visitors, Error.safestep-police.net is just one part of a larger threat campaign than itself: one that uses Police Ransomware Trojans to demand money from the same victims they attack. These PC threats usually are installed by separate means, after which they lock the affected computer and display a screen-wide pop-up warning through Error.safestep-police.net. Error.safestep-police.net may claim to be affiliated with your local government and may say Error.safestep-police.net has the authority to demand a ransom fee, but both of these 'facts' are part of a hoax, and malware experts urge you to treat all contact with Error.safestep-police.net and its pop-ups as illegal attacks against your computer.

Watching Your Step Around an Imitation Police's Ransom

In their day, malware analysts have examined many Police ransomware Trojans: PC threats that tend to block your desktop, put a lockdown on other programs and load fake warning messages demanding that you pay money to fake police agencies. However, these kinds of threats rarely act alone, and Error.safestep-police.net actually is one of the central elements in their plans of ransoming random computers with fake legal alerts. As a domain designed for loading these fake legal alerts, Error.safestep-police.net is responsible for the attacks that make you believe that your PC has transgressed any of various laws.

Error.safestep-police.net's pop-up alerts typically will block your entire desktop, include references to various law enforcement organizations and even may cite some of the laws you supposedly have broken (such as downloading illegal types of erotica). However, Error.safestep-police.net will display these alerts for any PC so affected by an appropriate type of Police ransomware Trojan. Malware experts especially consider paying any Error.safestep-police.net-based fees to be a waste of the victim's money; fake Police Trojans aren't in the habit of unlocking computers that they've attacked, even after their demands are met.

How to Get PC Safety from Law Enforcement Gone Wrong

Error.safestep-police.net is one of the many websites that are abused for loading screen-blocking alerts with fake demands from the 'police.' Some others currently confirmed by malware researchers include Block.highqualitypolice.net, Alert.policeprotector.biz and Error.servepolice.biz. Their uses in their respective Police ransomware campaigns predominantly are for launching fake pop-up warnings. However, any contact with Error.safestep-police.net or a similar site also is a risk to your PC that may result in an infection, and a quick anti-malware scan after any kind of exposure is recommended.

On the other side of things, Police ransomware Trojans already involved in launching Error.safestep-police.net pop-ups are more likely than not to be blocking a variety of important security programs. To deal with these high-level PC threats, malware analysts would suggest that you boot your PC from a secondary hard drive that has yet to be compromised (such as a USB device). Anti-malware programs then can be brought to the fore and used to remove the Trojans responsible for Error.safestep-police.net's pop-ups – without paying a single cent to criminals.