Thursday 14 February 2013

What is FBI Virus - How To Remove FBI Virus From Your PC


What is FBI Virus?

FBI Virus is a ransomware Trojan that integrates what is ordinarily known as the ‘MoneyPak scam.’ FBI Virus is one more among many variants of the Reveton Trojan, a malware infection that has been part of a ransomware scam that has been attacking PCs for several years. The cyber criminals behind FBI Virus will unlock an infected PC within 2 days after receiving the ransom, but this will not take care of the malware infection. PC users are advised to use a legitimate anti-malware removal tool to delete FBI. Cybercrime Division or any of its variants and not give a penny to the cyber criminals responsible for FBI Virus. There’s been a big increase in the number of cases in the America country. Some people indeed will do something illegal online such as visiting some porn sites. So when they get such warning message, they will believe it deeply. But remember this is a fake virus.

FBI Virus symtomps

* FBI Virus installs without your consent

* FBI Virus installs other types of spyware/adware

* FBI Virus may hijack, redirect and change your browser

* FBI Virus displays annoying popups while you surf the web

* FBI Virus compromises your privacy and security

* FBI Virus is difficult to uninstall

FBI Virus infection is promoted through hacked sites that use exploits to install this program onto your computer without your permission. Once installed is it will display false error messages and security warnings on the infected computer.

Please understand, that FBI Virus is scripted to show you these fake scan results regardless of the computer you are on and how clean it is. Therefore, do not be concerned by any of the scan results as they are only being shown to scare you into thinking that you have a serious computer problem.

How to remove FBI Virus in safemode

It is possible that the FBI Virus infection you are trying to remove will not allow you to download removal tool on the infected computer in normal mode. In such case, you need to restart your computer in "Safe Mode with Networking" to deactivate all virus process.

Restart your computer in “Safe Mode with Network.”

1. To do so, please restart your computer.

2. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8? key constantly.

3. Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option and then press ENTER.

4. Please be patient while system loads in Safe Mode with Networking. This might take couple of minutes.

(If you don’t get the Safe Mode with Networking option, please restart the computer again and keep tapping “F8? key immediately.)

After getting into safe mode. Here is a small guide how to scan and clean your computer

Print out this post if you don’t have access to another computer, because all windows will be closed later during removal.

1. Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, from the wesite.

2. When finish downloading, Save and close all open programs and browsers -> Double-click the downloaded file “mbam-setup.exe” to begin installation

3. Click continue and use the default settings through installation and when installation has finished make sure you leave both the – Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware checked -> Click Finish

4. Malwarebytes will now start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program before performing a scan. As Malwarebytes will automatically update itself after the install, you can press the OK button to close that box.

5. On the Scanner tab -> choose “Full system scan”

Malwarebytes will then scan your computer for spyware. The scan can take a long time, So I recommend you to do something else while scanning.

6. When the scan has finished click the “Show results” button -> A window displaying all the Malware found will be shown -> Click “Remove Selected” and Malwarebytes will start clean all the Spyware. Once the removal is done -> Press OK to restart

7. After restart your computer is now free of all Malware and Spyware.

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