Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus Removal, Get Rid of RCMP Ransomware on Windows And Mac OS

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus Brief Introduction

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus is a typical ransomware that has the capability to make destruction on poor computers using Windows operating system (OS) or Mac OS. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, much as the name implies, it mainly attacks PC users whose geographical location is Canada. One emblematical symptom of the virus is the pop-up alert message displaying on the screen, which allegedly claims that the computer has been locked according to user’s illegal activities. For Windows users, Royal Canadian Mounted Police scam often restrict the access to the Windows that it infects and show the warning on the monitor. But for Mac users, their web browser such as safari is often blocked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus.

However, no matter which version of RCMP virus exists on your computer, the main purpose of the virus is to threaten victims and mislead them to pay a non-existence fine in order for the restriction to be removed. To increase the illusion, Royal Canadian Mounted Police often embezzles the names of authoritative logos from the local law enforcement agencies. As a matter of fact, Royal Canadian Mounted Police warning has nothing to do the authorities, but is only a fraud tool created by cyber criminals to make damage on affected computer and gain from victims. Suppose that Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) ransomware cannot be removed from computer timely, it may even drop and install additional malware by making use of found security vulnerabilities. With the further destruction, remote hacker may even access targeted machine without any permission or knowledge. This will lead to unthinkable damage for user’s computer.

Common Properties of RCMP Ransomware

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus is a corrupt application
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus may spread via Trojans
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus asks to pay for non-functional "full version"
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus may display fake messages warning about computer problems
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus may install additional spyware to your computer
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) virus may repair its files, spread or update by itself

Screenshots of Royal Canadian Mounted Police Scam

 

Version on Windows

 Version on Mac

How to Remove Royal Canadian Mounted Police Virus (Manual Tips)

For Windows users:

1.    Safe Mode with Networking.

Before performing the manual removal of Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus, reboot your computer into "safe mode with networking" by constantly tapping F8 key before Windows is launched.

2.    Stop Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s running processes in the task manager first.

3.    Remove these associated Files on your hard drive such as:
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\ApplicationData\.exe(rnd)

4.    Open Registry Editor (in Windows XP, go to Start Menu, run, type in “Regedit” and press OK; in Windows 7, Windows Vista & Windows 8, go to Start menu, Search, type in “Regedit”), find out the following Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s  registry entries and delete:

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”"

For Mac OS users:

You can simple reset your web browser to troubleshoot the problem.

1.    On the safari, click on Settings icon and then select reset safari button.

2.    Then, there will open a window shown as below image, click Reset button to reset Safari to default settings.

3.    Restart Safari to check and that’s it.

Why does Auto Removal Fail to Remove RCMP Virus

Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus is similar to many viruses released that can escape antivirus or can even prevent from scanning. Why? It’s obvious that people usually got this virus on their computers when surfing online, but when they wanted to remove it, only to find that the antivirus programs couldn't pick it up at all. This is mainly because Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus hides deep in the registry entries and mutates at quick speed that is capable of blocking antivirus software. Besides, it can also infect many system files and make them become its associated files. Although Royal Canadian Mounted Police virus removal didn’t help, people can still clean this threat completely by following the manual removal guide below.

The instruction above is for advanced computer users, since Royal Canadian Mounted Police ransomware is very tricky; it’s hard to handle it without relative expert skills. You want to remove it ASAP? VilmaTech 24/7 Online Agents would help you out soon!