Strathclyde Police Virus - How to remove

Strathclyde Police Virus

Strathclyde Police Virus is a malware that uses Metropolitan Police Services and Strathclyde Police name as well as logo illegally. It is closely related to PCEU virus.  It aims at tricking money from people via fake fines. Such payment methods as Ukash and PaySafe Card are being used. These are prepaid payment systems which are particularly difficult to trace and get paid money back. Every person that gets on the cyber criminals hook pays 100£.

Although the scam scheme that Strathclyde Police Virus uses is well known and this is not the first time it is being applied to, it still seems to work since more and more versions of similar scams attack computer users. A malware works this way: as soon as it gets into the system, it blocks a PC completely; all you may see is a warning screen informing about a breach of laws. The text covers information about illegal activities on the Internet such as viewing or distributing material with scenes of violence or even child pornography:

Attention!!!
Under the laws of the United Kingdom and investigation of Metropolitan Police Service and Strathclyde Police Your computer is locked to prevent illegal activity in the network.
……
From this IP-address it was visited sites containing banned scenes of violence against people, as well as viewing banned in United Kingdom child pornography materials. We discouverd video files that contain elements of violence were found on your computer.
Unsolicited Bulk Messages was send from your computer’s IP address and it was recorded by SpamHaus this month.
The computer has been locked to prevent your illegal activities on the Internet.

As you may see from the Strathclyde Police Virus message, it has grammar and spelling mistakes. There is no doubt it is a scam and has nothing related to such official institutions like Metropolitan Police Services or Strathclyde Police.

Strathclyde Police Virus can get into a PC via corrupted shareware or freeware. One more way to get infected is after visiting malicious websites or opening spam e-mails with attachments having Trojans.

In order to remove Strathclyde Police Virus you should choose one of the methods below:

Method I (when you can launch Safe Mode with Networking):

  1. Restart infected computer and hit F8 while its booting.
  2. Choose Safe Mode with Networking.
  3. Launch MSConfig.
  4. Disable startup items rundll32 turning on any application for the Application Data.
  5. Reboot your system one more time.
  6. Scan with https://www.2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe to identify malicious files and delete them.

Method II (when virus has disabled all of Safe Modes):

  1. Reboot your computer as usually.
  2. Start -> Run.
  3. Enter http://2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe . If Strathclyde Police Virus is loaded, just press alt+tab once and keep entering the string blindly. Press Enter.
  4. Press Alt+tab and then R couple of times. Strathclyde Police Virus process should be killed now.

Method III (if any of the above does not suite your situation):

  1. Reboot into safe mode with command prompt. There should not be blank screen, nor Strathclyde Police Virus screen.
  2. Run regedit. Search for Winlogon.
  3. There will be a key labeled Shell under Winlogon. It should reference Explorer.exe or be blank. If there is something else referring an executable in one of users folders, replace it with explorer.exe.
  4. Save changes, reboot to safe mode with networking.
  5. Run msconfig and disable all unnecessary startup entries. You should be able to reboot normally.
  6. Install and run https://www.2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe. Scan with it the PC and delete Strathclyde Police Virus executables that it finds.

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