'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware

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The 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware infection is a police Winlocker that displays a fake message from the International Police Association. The 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware is one of the variants of a well known scam that has been active for several years. These kinds of malware infections, known as Police Ransomware or as police Winlockers, lock access to Windows, effectively taking the victim's computer hostage. They then extract a ransom from the victim by claiming that the victim's computer was blocked by a police organization. There are variants corresponding to hundreds of different police organizations around the world. Variants of 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware exist in dozens of different languages, always carrying out the same scam.

The main purpose of the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware infection is to convince computer users that they need to pay a ransom of fifty or one hundred Euros through Ukash or other money transfer services. The main problem with the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware is that the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware blocks access to the victim's computer completely. Inexperienced computer users may pay the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware ransom simply to unblock their computer, regardless of whether they believe the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware message that claims its connection to the police. ESG security analysts strongly advise against doing this. Paying the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware 'fine' will do nothing to unlock your computer or restore your access to your desktop or files. ESG malware analysts have observed variants of the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware infection that use the victim's webcam to take video of the victim's surroundings in order to make their attack more effective.

It is important to ignore the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware message and all content associated with this Police Ransomware infection. The 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware infection should be removed with an anti-virus program that is fully up to date. However, the main difficulty is usually accessing the infected computer and bypassing the 'Your Computer is Locked' Ransomware's message. Fortunately, this can be done with the help of alternate boot methods such as the Windows Safe Mode, the Command Prompt or starting up from an external source such as a different hard drive partition or an external memory device.