Police Central E-Crime Unit Virus Removal, Guide to Remove PC Locked Scam

Police Central E-Crime Unit virus (alias United Kingdom Police virus or PCeU virus) is a Trojan horse-type malware infection which has capability to render a victim’s computer inoperable with the aid of advanced screen locker techniques. Police Central E-Crime Unit ransomware attack is generally bundled with a fake pop-up message which purportedly announced by the local law enforcement agencies, claiming that the operating system is locked due to the violation of the laws of the United Kingdom. Specifically, the bogus alert may commonly informs that users have visited websites which contain the materials of child pornography, elements of violence, zoophilia and child abuse, etc. To unlock the computer and avoid further legal sanction, this type of ransomware virus would threaten victims into paying a non-existent fine which is at least £ 100 through Ukash or other anonymous payment system.

However, the truth is, Police Central E-Crime Unit virus has nothing to do with the legitimate United Kingdom’s organization, and turns up a hack tool created by attackers for criminal extortion. Most commonly, Police Central E-Crime Unit virus similar as other ransomware infection such as Australian Federal Police virus scam, has the capability to modify default system configuration – Windows boot sector which takes control of the operating system’s boot loader, through inserting its numerous codes and registry files onto system. As a result, the Police Central E-Crime Unit virus could be loaded up automatically whenever PC reboots. While running in the back ground of system, this type of threat may even open ports of Windows to public. This may directly lead to further worse infections on compromised machine. It is certain that Police Central E-Crime Unit virus should be removed from computer timely once being informed of its existence to avoid further damage and loss.

Note: However, the Police Central E-Crime Unit virus has the ability to block installed antivirus program from running to avoid auto removal. Hence, you may consider the helpful manual removal to get rid of Police Central E-Crime Unit ransomware completely. If you haven’t sufficient expertise on doing that, it's recommended to ask help from a VilmaTech 24/7 Online Computer Expert to manually remove it for you. That would make a hit.

Other Symptoms of Police Central E-Crime Unit Virus

• Encrypts user sensitive documents, multimedia objects or any other files containing important information. Leaves only encrypted data, usually deleting the original files.
• Deletes user documents, multimedia objects or any other files containing important information.
• Corrupts the entire system or installed software by deleting essential system components or important parts of installed software.
• Steals login names, passwords, valuable personal documents, identity data and other user sensitive information.
• Sends all gathered data to a predefined e-mail address, uploads it to a predetermined FTP server or transfers it through a background Internet connection to a remote host.

How to Remove Police Central E-Crime Unit Ransomware (Manual Removal)

Part one: Safe Mode with Networking.

For Windows 7, XP & Vista:

Boot your computer into safe mode with networking by restarting your computer and keeping pressing F8 key and then using arrow key to get into that mode.

For Windows 8:

• Start and login the infected computer until you see the desktop.
• Press the Ctrl+ Alt+ Del combination key, the Switch User interface will pop-up.
• Always hold down the “Shift” key on the keyboard and at the same tine click on “Shut down” button once on the bottom right corner of the page.
• You will get three options there: Sleep, Shut down and Restart. Click on Restart option.
• The next window says ‘Choose an Option’ screen,” then you need select “Troubleshoot.”
• On the troubleshoot page click on ‘Advanced Options’. In the following window choose ‘startup settings
• Choose ‘restart,’ and then wait for a minute. Windows will automatically display Safe mode options. At last press F5/5 key to highlight Safe Mode with Networking option, hit enter key as well. Later after that, Windows 8 Operating system will be booted up with safe mode with networking.

Part two: Completely remove Police Central E-Crime Unit virus

1. To stop all Police Central E-Crime Unit virus, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager.

2. Click on the "Processes" tab, search for Police Central E-Crime Unit virus, then right-click it and select "End Process" key.  

3. Click "Start" button and selecting "Run." Type "regedit" into the box and click "OK." 

4. Once the Registry Editor is open, search for the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Police Central E-Crime Unit." Right-click this registry key and select "Delete." 

5. Navigate to directory %PROGRAM_FILES%\ Police Central E-Crime Unit\ and delete the infected files manually.
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\ApplicationData\.exe(rnd)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit”={rnd}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run”"
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun”"

Please be aware that you need to be very prudent during the whole removal process, because any inaccurate operation may result in data loss or even system crash. If you are confused how to do the above steps, you just need click here and get help from VilmaTech 24/7 Online Computer Experts to remove Police Central E-Crime Unit virus completely.