Manually Unlock Your PC from An Garda Síochána. Ireland’s National Police Service Virus

Cannot access your computer as it’s been locked by a pop-up warning asking fines from you to unlock? Have you really done what the warning says on the screen? If not, what is the reason for it to block your computer? Do you have to pay to unlock? Beware of this situation as you may have been tricked by an online scam which has been quite popular in these days.

Description:

An Garda Síochána. Ireland’s National Police Service is an alert that pops up on your computer and locks it so that you cannot make access to it. It has been an international issue that’s very common in these days. The most popular one should be the FBI Moneypak which also becomes a virus infecting computer users not only from the United States but worldwide. People get easily nervous when this alert appears on their computers as it looks so legit. Generally, this kind of cyber scam locks your computer in the name of the country and asks certain fines from you to automatically unlock your computer in the next few hours or so.

Have you really done what this An Garda Síochána. Ireland’s National Police Service warning states? You may not be sure when you visited some illegal websites. But as long as you cannot be certain, you should not pay directly to this ransomware. Opportunities that you may be infected with this virus include visiting unknown hacked sites, downloading free malicious programs and opening spam emails. A small piece of Trojan virus hidden in these places could assist the infection of this alert. What’s worse, your antivirus software cannot stop or remove this infection. It’s very aggressive and can escape from the detection or auto removal of antivirus programs. You’ll soon be blocked once you do a reboot of the computer. A pop up warning will appear on your screen which you cannot get it away. Being afraid of involving in some legal issues, you may want to pay via Ukash to unlock your computer. But be careful! Once you enter your bank numbers, not only your computer still gets infected but you will be giving out personal information to remote hackers at the same time. To unlock your computer, the best way to do is to manually remove this warning off your computer as soon as possible.

Pop-up Warning You Will Receive:

Your computer has been locked by the automated information control system (AICS)
What is the reason?
This could be due to one of the following reasons:
1. Your computer has been used to view banned Web sites
2. Your computer has been used to view Web sites containing child pornography
3. Your computer has been used to illicit information exchange
4. Your computer has been used for stroing/viewing pirated content
What should I do?
According to “Information Security and Control Act (ISCA) 2012”, you are required to pay a fine of € 100. For the convenience of paying the fine we provide a secure payment gateway for Ukash Vouchers. You need to buy Ukash voucher ($) for sum of € 100 and enter the 19 (sometimes 16) digit code written on the voucher to the secure payment form, then press “Submit Code” button to send the code.
What will happen after I submit the code?
Once the Ukash voucher code is verified by our system your computer will be immediately unlocked.
If you want to pay a fine using two codes of € 50 each – you should enter the first code, after receiving confirmation, the send code.
What if I have problems?
If for any reason you can not pay the fine through a secure payment form, you will need to send an e-mail to info@online-cyber-police.com, stating your IP address and Ukash voucher code (19 digits or 16 digits) of total sum € 100. Once the code is verified by our system your computer will be immediately unlocked.

Potential Threats:

Besides from blocking your computer from being accessed, An Garda Síochána. Ireland’s National Police Service virus can also:
1. Bring remote hackers to your computer to follow all your activities and collect valuable information to make illegal benefits;
2. Create more system flaws to bring more viruses, malware and ransomware to infect your computer;
3. Disable some functions of computer so that you may be failed when trying to delete the virus;
4. Turn the computer into running slower than ever if there’s not a fast removal.

Tips to Manually Remove This Fake Alert:

As mentioned before that legitimate antivirus programs cannot 100% remove this virus, you will need to do the removal manually. And before you make any changes to the system, please do a system backup beforehand in case any unpredictable results occur. Following are some steps for you to consider:

1. Reboot the infected computer and get into safe mode with networking. When you have pressed the restart button, please keep pressing F8 on your keyboard until a black screen with several commands appears. Then use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press E/ENTER;

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time or right click on the Task Bar to open the Windows Task Manager;
3. End the process [An Garda Síochána.].exe;

4. Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;

5. Under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK;

6. Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys;

7. Find out and delete all these associating files as below:
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-.exe
%AppData%\result.db
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\ rnd.lnk

8. Find out and remove all these associating registry entries:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{random}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Inspector”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = 0

9. Reboot again and get into normal mode when the above steps are done.

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Tips: If you have failed to remove this An Garda Síochána. Ireland’s National Police Service alert from your computer by the above steps or found it difficult to follow, please contact YooCare Expert now to save your computer in time.