Your computer is infected by Police Central e-crime Unit virus ( PCeU scam ). This article is aimed at helping innocent victim remove this malicious virus and learn about knowledge about computer security. Please read more to follow the step-by step removal guide to get rid of Police Central e-crime Unit virus ( PCeU scam ) completely.
What is Police Central e-crimal Unit Virus
Police Central e-crimal Unit virus, also called PCeU scam, is a malicious ransomware created by cyber criminals to rip off the victims by means of scaring, defrauding, and locking screen. Once infected by the virus, you will see a fake notification with the icon
,or from Specialist Crime Directorate or Metropolitan Police
claiming that your online activities have violated law like viewing or
distributing prohibited pornographic content, illegally using or
distributing copyrighted content, illegal access to computer data , etc
locking your desktop. By disguising as legal authority, It blocks your desktop to stop your illegal action and then ask a fine of up to ￡100,000. Meanwhile, the ransomware threatens you that you have to pay the fine within 72 hours via Ukash or PaySafeCard, or you’’ll be sued. It is totally a scam designed by cyber criminals. And the fine is fake and non-existing.
However, in order to make such fake notification looks more authentic
and tricks more victims into paying the fine, it even displays your IP
address and a fake video window to frighten you that
your local legal department has monitored all your behavior online and
recorded your illegitimate behavior online so as to scare some
unsuspecting PC users into paying the fake fine. Remember that there is
no authority monitors your online behavior. And cyber criminals use
illegal means to get your IP address. Never pay a fine to those cyber
criminals and ignore any of threats.Police Central e-crime Unit virus has many variants and often updates its version of fake notification. Therefore, fake notifications victims see vary from regions. Some victims’ desktop are locked by fake alerts from Specialist Crime Directorate or Metropolitan Police, while some of them received fake notifications with PCeU icon. This virus mainly targets user in the united Kingdom and other countries.
When infected by Police Central e-crime Unit virus, you may see any of following screenshots.
Four screenshots of Police Central e-crime Unit virus with PCeU icon
Fake notification from Metopolitan Police
Fake notification from Specialist Crime Directorate
Never trust what fake notification says, just remove this ransomware immediately.
How Does Police Central e-crime Unit Virus Infect Computer
Situation 1: Some malicious websites and legal websites that have been compromised as well as malicious links, attachments in spam emails may contain Police Central e-crime Unit Virus. When you click on them, Police Central e-crime Unit Virus may be downloaded surreptitiously.
Situation 2: You may be convinced that certain free software which may include malware is very useful for you. After your download and install it, malicious program Police Central e-crime Unit Virus may also be installed on your PC packaged with the free software.
Situation 3: Your PC may also be captured by Police Central e-crime Unit Virus via peer-to-peer file sharing websites which may carry some malware and virus.
Precautions
Avoid opening unknown, unwanted websites or links, attachments in spam emails.
Avoid downloading free software from unknown websites, especially peer-to-peer file sharing websites.
Install antimalware software to prevent your PC from the attack of ransomware and other malware.
Recommended: Anvi Smart Defender
Download link：http://www.dotfab.com/download_asd.html
Situation Possible to Occur When You Remove Police Central e-crime Unit Virus
The virus prevents you from entering into desktop and the computer system has been frozen. It has different variants that bring you a series of troubles.
Sometimes, you can restore your computer system in safe mode with command prompt;
Sometimes, you can’t find any restore points in the list causing they have been removed by the virus;
And sometimes, you cannot restart your PC causing the screen will be locked again after a several seconds.
Situations you may meet when you remove the virus depend on which variant the PC is infected. Also, some malicious files may be added to your computer and then bring you bad consequences.
Similar Ransomware
The similar ransomware removal guides are offered below, if your PC is infected by one of the following virus, please click on it to see the specific removal steps.
Cheshire Police Authority Virus, International Cyber Security Protection Alliance virus, Politie Office Central Ukash Virus, Spamhaus MoneyPak Virus, Joint Chiefs of Staff MoneyPak Virus, MoneyGram Virus, FBI “Ihr Computer wurde gesperrt und alle Daten verschlüsselt wurden!” Virus, Europol Interpol Paysafecard Virus, FBI “Uw computer is vergrendeld en alle gegevens zijn versleuteld!” Virus, CCIPS Moneypak Ransomware, Decrypt Protect-MBL Block Off Virus, United States Department of Justice MoneyPak Virus, CashU Virus.
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How to Remove Police Central e-crime Unit Virus
(Tips for removing the virus)
Case 1: If you can get into the safe mode with command prompt, remove the ransomware by restoring your system.
Case 2: If you aren’t able to restart your PC or the restore points have been removed by the virus, get rid of the virus via Anvi Rescue Disk.
Method for case 1: Restore your PC in safe mode with command prompt.
Step 1> Restore computer in safe mode with command prompt
1. Restart your computer.
2. Repeatedly press F8 upon the opening of the boot menu to enter Windows in “Safe Mode with Command Prompt”.
3. Type “explorer” when the Command Prompt appears and press Enter.
Note: In some cases during infections of malware and viruses you only have 2-3 seconds to do this. In other cases if it doesn’t work during the given seconds, viruses such as the FBI MoneyPak ransomware virus will not allow you to type “explorer” anymore.
4. Once Windows Explorer shows up browse Win XP: C:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe or Win Vista/Seven: C:\windows\system32\rstrui.exe, then press Enter.
5. When such a window appears, click next.
6. Choose a restore point from the list, then click next.
7. At last click finish to complete the restore.
8. Restart your PC to normal mode.
Step 2> Remove malicious files from your PC through Anvi Smart Defender
1. Install Anvi Smart Defender
Download and install the paid or free version of Anvi Smart Defender
Anti-malware software from the links below:
Download link：http://www.dotfab.com/download_asd.html
Purchase link: http://www.dotfab.com/asdupgrade.php
2. Click quick or full scan
After you install the program, please open it, and switch to Scan tab, perform quick or full scan to eliminate malware infections and any possible unwanted program.
3. Remove malicious files form your computer
Once the scan is over, Anvi Smart Defender
will display the scan results. Click on Remove button to completely remove the malicious files from your computer.
Step 3>Remove residual junk files, invalid registry entries form your computer via Cloud System Booster
There may exist some residual junk files and invalid registry entries, other related potentially unwanted programs in your computer system. Thus, Cloud System Booster is required to clean up them and to save your disk space so that as to increase running speed of your computer.
1. Download and install the paid or free version of Cloud System Booster system maintenance & optimizer software.
Download link: http://www.dotfab.com/download_csb.html
Purchase link: http://www.dotfab.com/csbupgrade.php
2. After you install the program, please open it, click on BOOST button on the main screen to run a quick and full scan.
3. Once the scan completes, there will come out a result screen, please click Clean button there to remove these junk files, invaild registry entries, etc to make sure the computer system is clean.
Option 2: If you can’t restart your PC, please use Anvi Rescue Disk to remove MoneyGram virus.
Below is a video of ransomware removal using Anvi Rescue Disk isofor your reference.
Step 1> Download the Anvi Rescue Disk iso image file
Download the Anvi Rescue Disk iso image file Rescue.iso and the USB disk production tool BootUsb.exe from Anvisoft official site. (Both are packaged in the file offered to download below.)
Direct download link: http://download.anvisoft.com/software/rescuedisk.zip
Please kindly note that Rescue.iso is a large file to download; please be patient while it downloads.
Step 2> Record the Anvi Rescue Disk isoimage to USB drive.
You can also record the iso image to a CD/DVD. We will introduce the steps to record iso image to a CD/DVD in following guide.
To record the Anvi Rescue Disk isoimage to USB drive:
1. Firstly find a clean computer with correct internet connection and then connect your USB driver to the clean computer. You’d better backup your important data and format your USB drive before using it to record the iso image.
2. Locate your download folder and double-click on BootUsb.exe to start it. And then click “Choose File” button to browser into your download folder and select Rescue.iso file as your source file.
3. Select the path of USB drive, such as Drive H:
4. Click “Start Burning” to start the burn of USB Rescue Disk boot drive.
5.Please close BootUsb.exe tool after you successfully burn the file to the USB drive when you get the following message.
Now, you have bootable Anvi Rescue Disk to repair your computer.
——Alternative Option
You can also record Anvi Rescue Disk isoimage to a DV/DVD. Any CD/DVD record software is fine for burn iso image. If you don’t have any, you can download and install Nero Burning ROM and ImgBurn. Here we will use Nero Burning ROM for demonstration purpose.
Please open and start Nero Burning ROM and select Burn Image from the drop-down menu of the Recorder.
1. Locate your download folder and select Rescue.iso file as your source file and then click Open button.
2. Click Burn button to start record the iso image. After a few minutes, you will have a bootable Anvi Rescue Disk to repair your computer.
Step 3> Configure your infected computer to boot from the USB drive/DV/DVD
Restart your infected computer and configure it to boot from USB drive/DV/DVD that recorded Anvi Rescue Disk.
Basically , you can use F8 to load USB boot menu.
For different motherboard, you may need to use the Delete or F2, F11 keys, to load the BIOS menu. Normally, the information on how to enter the BIOS menu is displayed on the screen at the start of the OS boot.
The keys F1, F8, F10, F12 might be used for some motherboards, as well as the following key combinations:
- • Ctrl+Esc
- • Ctrl+Ins
- • Ctrl+Alt
- • Ctrl+Alt+Esc
- • Ctrl+Alt+Enter
- • Ctrl+Alt+Del
- • Ctrl+Alt+Ins
- • Ctrl+Alt+S
If you can’t enter Boot Menu directly then simply use Delete key to enter BIOS menu. Select Boot from the main BIOS menu and then select Boot Device Priority. After that, set USB drive or CD/DVD-ROM as your 1st Boot Device. Save changes and exist BIOS menu.
Step> 4 Boot your computer from Anvi Rescue Disk.
After that let’s boot your computer from Anvi Rescue Disk.
1. Restart your computer. After restart, a message will appear on the screen: press any key to enter the menu. So, press Enter or any other key to load the Anvi Rescue Disk
2. please selected your preferred language and press Enter to continue.
Step> 5 Run the Anvi Rescue Disk to scan and repair.
1. Now you are in the mini Operating system, please double-click Rescue tool to start Anvi Rescue disk.
Important note: make sure that your computer is connected to network connection before you run a scan on your computer. If you fail to connect your computer to Internet, please check the tutorial on network configuration in this article: Network Troubleshooting Tips for Ransomware Removal Using Anvi Rescue Disk
2. Please run a full scan by clicking the “Scan Computer” button in the middle of the program to detect and kill the PC lockup virus.
3. Clicking “Fix Now” to Remove the detected threats detected by Anvi Rescue Disk.
4. Switch to Repair tab. Scan and fix the registry error with the “Repair” module of Anvi Rescue Disk.
Important Notice: You must repair the registry error after kill the virus. Otherwise, you would be disabled to boot your Windows without fixing registry damaged by the virus.
Step>6 Download Anvi Smart Defender
antimalware to ensure a clean computer.
After the repair, your computer should be clean and rescued from the evil claw of the ransomware infection. However, many professionally crafted ransomware variants have evolved to be very persistent, that is to say, harder to remove, so you are highly recommended to download the antimalware Anvi Smart Defender
by clicking Yes button on the prompted window to fulfill the download.
After the download, please restart your computer to normal Windows mode and then go to the folder: C:\Users\[username]\Downloads
Find the downloaded file asdsetup.exe and double click its file to install it and then start it to perform a full scan on your computer system, in order to ensure the computer is clean from any associated infections or leftovers.
After the scan, remove any detected infections and then you can have a clean computer now.
Good luck and be safe online. If any question, feel free to contact us for timely help by sending us your email below.
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