Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus - How to remove

Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos virus is a dangerous ransomware that uses the name of police in order to rip off random computer users. It is mostly distributed through Trojan viruses, so the users couldn’t detect its infiltration. The program modifies some system parameters and interrupts your regular computer activities. Once inside, it displays one of those messages that blocks your entire computer saying that you have violated the law and you must pay a fine for that.

The main goal of Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos virus is to gain your money and it will try to do that saying that you must pay a fine that was imposed to you because of using and distributing some porn related content. This time it targets users in Lithuania and it uses the name of local Lithuanian police to confuse computer users and make them pay this 300 LTL. The fine is asked to be paid over Paysafecard payment system. It is quite easy to trick computer users, since nobody want t ideal with police.

Beware that it’s a scam and never trust this type of warning. No legal institution would ever send you a warning on your computer no matter what you are involved with and you would never have to pay your fine using Paysafecard or similar systems. Although they are legal, they require pre-paid card and police never uses such methods to collect fines. Remove Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus without any hesitations.

If your computer has more than one user account and not all of them are locked, scan whole PC with anti-malware programs, e.g. spyhunter, by logging to the account that is not blocked. Another option is to use system restore. If none of these methods worked for you, do the following:

• Restart your computer;
• Press F8 while it is still restarting;
• Choose between safe modes in following order: Safe mode, Safe mode with command prompt

Then follow the guides below:

If your computer runs in Safe mode or Safe mode with networking

1. Launch MSConfig.
2. Disable startup items rundll32 turning on any application from Application Data;. Note, that these are typical locations for Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus but some others might be used.
3. Restart the system once again.
4. Scan with https://www.2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe to identify Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus files and delete it.

Here is a video showing how to complete the steps:

If your computer runs in Safe mode with command prompt

1. Run Regedit.
2. Search for WinLogon Entries. Write down all files it references that are not explorer.exe or blank. Replace them with explorer.exe
3. Search registry for Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus files and delete the registry keys referencing the files
4. Try to reboot and scan with Spyhunter.
5. If this fails, try doing system restore from safe mode with command prompt (rstrui.exe)

If none of safe modes could be launched

Some versions of Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus disable all safe modes, but give a short gap that you can use to run anti-malware programs:

1. Reboot normally.
2. Start->Run.
3. Enter: http://2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe . If malware is loaded, just press alt+tab once and keep entering the string blindly. Press Enter.
4. Press Alt+tab and then R couple times. Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus process should be killed.

Here is a video detailing this approach:

Hitman Pro USB disk

If you did not succeed using any of the methods above, try scanning PC with a bootable USB or DVD disk. These should be able to remove all versions of Policijos Departamentas Prie Vidaus Reikalų Ministerijos Virus, but will not work if your hard drive is encrypted.

For that, we recommend using Hitman Pro Kickstarter USB.

1. Download Hitman Pro on uninfected PC.
2. Run Hitman and ask to create Kickstarter USB (option on initial screen)
3. When USB ready, reboot infected PC with USB attached and press DEL
4. Choose USB as primary boot device.
5. Boot normally.
6. Run Hitman Pro and https://www.2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe . One of these programs should detect and remove malware from your PC.

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