Need Help to Remove Police Ukash Completely: Manual Removal

I received a message said that “Your computer has been locked”, and yes, my computer was locked. To see what exactly what the matter is, this post will give description on the virus and shows how to remove the virus from your computer completely. 

Description of Police Ukash

Police Ukash virus is a ransomware that performs as an official law enforcement agency cover your screen to ask you to pay a fine. It states that your computer was involved in pornographic material, SPAM and copyrighted content. Once your computer is infected with Police Ukash virus, your computer was locked and you cannot get into any process and application but only to pay for the fine. Even you really pay for it, it is not sure your computer will come back to normal. 

You may get Police Ukash by opening an unknown email that contains infected attachment or download update software bounded with the virus. it is named after a city where the computer belong to, such as Australian Federal Police, Metropolitan Police. Once the virus is installed, it will run automatically when you run your computer and active before the system launches. In this case, computer users cannot get into their desktop and don’t know how to solve the problem.

Characteristic of Police Ukash

1. Police Ukash is aggressive, and attacks the compromised computer without any of users’ permission;

2. Police Ukash aims to ransom users’ money;

3. Police Ukash displays fake information to scare users paying the ransom;

4. Police Ukash drops malicious files and registry entries to the infected computer;

5. Police Ukash changes the startup items and allows itself being activated with the system booting;

Police Ukash removal guide 

First, you can try to delete this stubborn ransomware  manually as the steps showed below, but make sure that before you get down to carrying out all the following steps, do a backup of all important materials.

1) Boot your computer into Safe Mode with Networking.

To perform this procedure, please restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then using arrow key to select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list and press ENTER to get into that mode.

2) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to pull up Window Task Manager and end suspicious processes:

3) Check the following directories and remove all these associated files:

%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat

%System%\regsvr.exe

%System%\setup.ini

%System%\setting.in

i%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat

%Temp%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

4) Open Registry Editor by navigating to Start Menu, type in Regedit, and then click OK. When you have been in Registry Editor, please remove the following related registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run: [avsdsvc] %CommonAppData%\ifdstore\security_defender.exe /min

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Antivirus Security Pro Virus\UninstallString “%AppData%[RANDOM CHARACTERS][RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” –u
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0

orAdmin” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehav
i

5) After you finish the above steps, please reboot

Second:  If the manual solution is difficult to be handled, continue to try with SpyHunter. With it, viruses, Trojans and malware can all be cleaned up.

1) Press the Download button to download SpyHunter.

2) Click run to start install its installer.(You need to wait for a few seconds.)

3) Click I accept the license agreement and then Next to continue its setup.

4) Wait for its updating.

5) Press Finish and then a SpyHunter Scanner window is displayed, click on Scan Computer Now and remove all reported threats.

Video direction for manual removal

NOTE: SpyHunter is a strong antivirus and can be added as another safeguard  in your computer and cooperate with your previous one without collision. It can block viruses, malware and Trojans at the time of their in-break. Beset by these annoying stuffs? Download SpyHunter to eliminate your anxiety.