Police Department University of California is a very malicious ransomware virus. If you are careless about your internet activities, this program can penetrate your computer by bundling itself with the free programs which you have downloaded from internet. Once your computer is compromised, you have dealt with many tough problems, especially you may have to suffer from financial loss to some extents.
Since this ransomware stays in your computer, it firstly will block your computer compulsively no matter what you are doing. It claims that it is on the behalf of the police to warn you that you have violated law and to accuse you with illegal internet activities such as sharing illegal files, visiting porn websites, downloading programs with infringing copyright and so on. It also tells the computer users if they don't want to deal with the local police or go to jail, they better pay for the fine so that they can make everything back to normal.
Obviously it's a scam that police won't charge with something just blocking your computer. If you are cheated by this and pay for the fine, your confidential information like credit card account and password has been exposed to remote hackers. Later they will use your privacy to perform illegal internet activities for achieving their purposes. Since this ransomware has disabled your antivirus, you are strongly recommended to get your computer into safe mode and then follow the manual removal in this article to remove this terrible ransomware virus from your computer completely.
Police Department University of California Ransomware Screenshot
1. It blocks your computer automatically and pops out fake warnings.
2. It uses the name of police to accuse you for illegal internet activities.
3. It informs you to pay the fine if you don't want to get in bigger troubles.
4. It lurks deep in system and degrades computer performance.
5. It steals your confidential information for illegal purposes.
6. It disables your antivirus programs so that it can't be removed by them.
How to Remove Police Department University of California Ransomware
Before the removal, please first back up your system! You should be extremely careful when deleting any file, because any mistake may lead to system crashes and other severe consequence.
METHOD 1. Manual Removal
Step One:
Reboot the computer and before Windows interface loads, hit F8 key repeatedly. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.
Step Two:
Open Windows Task Manager and end virus processes. There are three ways to launch the Task Manager
① Press keys Ctrl+Alt+Del.
② Press keys Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
③ Press the Start button→click on the Run option→Type in taskmgr→press OK.
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete Police Department University of California files:
%AppData%\Local\Temp\.exe
C:\Windows\System32\shxtea.dll
%User%\UserName\Roaming\.exe
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete Police Department University of California files:
%AppData%\Local\Temp\.exe
C:\Windows\System32\shxtea.dll
%User%\UserName\Roaming\.exe
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Police Department University of California registry entries and keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpUXSrv.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micrsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Micrsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "pcdfsvc" = "%CommonAppData%\pcdfdata\random.exe\min"
To completely delete Police Department University of California, you need to know that the manual removal above may not be able to remove virus completely, because the creators of virus are always updating the virus version.Besides,any tiny mistake during the manual removal process may lead to severe consequences. Therefore,to ensure a complete and safe virus removal, it’s recommended that you get rid of virus with Automatic Police Department University of California Removal Tool.
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