Uremtoo Trojan

The Uremtoo Trojan is a Police Trojan that's associated with a variety of ransomware-based attacks, such as 'System Failure' Ransomware, Europol Ransomware, the Reloadit Pack Virus, Gendarmerie Nationale Ransomware, Trojan.Ransom Fake Federal German Police (BKA) notice variante and the French Police Ukash Virus. Pop-up warnings from the Uremtoo Trojan claim to be sent by any of various national and international law enforcement agencies, always with the intent of blocking illegal computer behavior (like downloading music), but the Uremtoo Trojan actually isn't affiliated with any type of law enforcement. Attacks by the Uremtoo Trojan lock your computer, seemingly until you pay the Uremtoo Trojan's fine, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts don't recommend doing so – since the Uremtoo Trojan and its associated pop-up alerts can be removed with anti-malware software for free.

Why You Shouldn't Place Your Trust in an Uremtoo Trojan's Credentials

As one of various Trojans that are designed to generate fake legal alerts, the Uremtoo Trojan has been known to delivery attacks to multiple countries, including Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. Legal warnings from the Uremtoo Trojan accuse their victims of a range of different computer-based crimes – most commonly, downloading copyrighted media or viewing illegal pornography – but always are generated without any attempt to detect such activities. Pop-ups from the Uremtoo Trojan also habitually display some basic system information about the infected PC, such as your IP address, country of residence (as determined by the aforementioned IP address) and Internet Service Provider.

A Uremtoo Trojan's alert, which will reference a different type of legal agency according to the country of the infected PC, block your desktop and demand that you pay a fine for resolving the system lock. However, any money that's paid to the Uremtoo Trojan (like other ransomware hoaxes that SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have identified, such as Reveton and Urausy) land up in the hands of villains rather than your local government.

The Cheapest Way to Beat a Warning from the Uremtoo Trojan

The Uremtoo Trojan may claim that you or your person will suffer other punishments in the event of your failure to pay its fine, but SpywareRemove.com malware research team has failed to find any variant of the Uremtoo Trojan that follows through on these threats. No matter how much time has passed after the appearance of the Uremtoo Trojan's pop-up alert, you should strive to disable and then delete the Uremtoo Trojan with appropriate anti-malware tools.

Ordinarily, Safe Mode is a sufficient measure for disabling basic startup exploits like those used by the Uremtoo Trojan and other Police Trojans. However, in cases of a severe infection (particularly in the instance of a rootkit), you may also need to restart your PC through an OS that's loaded from any peripheral hard drive – most commonly available in the form of any USB flash drive.