Fedpol BundesKriminalPolizei virus was considered as the online nightmare for the general PC and Android phone users because of all the Android security issues it would cause. Once the infected computer suddenly be locked by this deceptive virus, users would see an appalling warning message delivered by the Fedpol BundesKriminalPolizei, indiscriminately accusing the users of violating the law so they should be punished for what they have done. As the innocent users were easily to get panic and frighted by this encounter without knowing it was actually a scam planed by Cyber criminals, so they chose to accept the punishment and honestly pay a bogus fine according to the Fedpol BundesKriminalPolizei request, letting the purposive Cyber criminals easily have their way and make exorbitant profits from the victims.
A major ransomware worm referred to the so-called Reveton gradually reached an enormous worldwide scope, just taking the Police Judiciaire Fédérale virus for instance, which work focuses attacking users’ computers and blackmailing money from them. Wherever who they are, the sort of Reveton ransomware has ability to infiltrate on their computers or Android systems. Police Judiciaire Fédérale virus, an aggressive ransomware attributed by scammers or cybercriminal syndicates to lock target users’ computers and require victims pay a demanding fine to get the restriction released. Police Judiciaire Fédérale virus infects a computer and Android phone without any consent, locks victimized user out from Windows, and demands a fine paid to the scammers or hijackers to get problematic PC worked normally as usual.
You may be confused about why your computer always pops up annoying ads for you, and it always redirect to a new web beginning with Jds.pathopti.net in address bar. You may be worried about if your computer is infected with something malicious. Jds.pathopti.net is not a virus in essence but a typically adware which belongs to Lyrics adware family. This adware is not malicious software at all, however, if you don’t remove it and its components they may attract other malware that you are difficult to handle with.
Getting Name Not Available virus can cause weird scenarios. People usually didn’t know its existence at first but hearing odd things from something like a generic radio show to TV shows and random sounds/songs like someone switching channels on a radio intermittently when no sound sources or video open in any windows at that moment. In the instance where no Internet is connected, random sound ceases. If any victim checks the volume mixer, detection of a column named Name Not Available can be located.
Wscript.exe is trustworthy file (or program) for Microsoft Windows operating system which is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. It can be used for logon scripts, administration and general automation. Serves as an executable file, Wscript.exe also allows operating system to execute VBScript files which is the abbreviation for Visual Basic Scripting Edition. A VBScript script must be executed within a host environment such as the GUI mode of Wscript.exe. By default, The Startup file related to Wscript.exe is SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services ‘Windows-based script host’. The process of Wscript.exe is non-essential for system, but should not be terminated in Windows Task Manager unless suspected to be causing problems. Errors related to Wscript.exe may trigger the problem of high occupied CPU usage, auto-run of Wscript.exe processes, shortcuts of random folders, auto-opened “My Documents” file folder, etc.
Monetomi adware should be considered as one of the most common infection on the Internet. In most cases, this unwanted adware would pretend to be a beneficial server and induce users to install it on the system. Once the targeted computer has been infected, users would see a large number of pop-up ads provided from the Monetomi, constantly displaying everywhere in the computer and the browser, seriously affecting user’s online activities. Most of the pop-ups were associated with coupons, discounts and sponsored links, intending to draw the innocent users’ attention and coax them to click on them to figure out more. This kind of tempting ads links were very dangerous for those users who could not control their curiosity and easily fall for the trap.
When you find your startup page always turns to Utorrent.inspsearch.com and your search engine is changed without your knowledge, your browser must be hijacked by utorrent.inspsearch.com. Utorrent.inspsearch.com has been classified as a partial browser hijacker which is able to modify your default settings of browser. Both target computer operating system of Windows and Mac are likely to be redirected when they try to open IE, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. This browser hijacker should be removed from computer as soon as possible.
Websearch.pu-results.info was an unwanted hijacker secretly infecting the targeted browser then modifying the original settings to make itself as the default service. In this case, it would freely redirect the users and lead them to browse the specified websites. Most of the websites provided by the Websearch.pu-results.info containing all kinds of attractive commercial information, effectively tempting the innocent users click on them and go for a visit, so that the advertisers and also the people behind the Websearch.pu-results.info would make exorbitant profits from them. This purposive hijacker arbitrarily drawing the users to those advertising pages could generate traffic and increase the trading volume, coaxing users to purchase goods on the Internet and get defrauded.
Alike the scammers or cybercriminal syndicates previously attributed Cryptolocker Rasomware, the Cryptorbit virus also is regarded as the sort of extremely aggressive Ransomware concentrates on attacking online users across world. Cryptorbit virus is more than lucrative for scammers it also turns out masses of special meaning personal files encrypted. Cryptorbit virus is really alarming for private computer users. The reason is such notorious ransomware is capable of encrypting all important privacy files located on the hard-drives with malicious codes and requires random to decrypt them. See the screenshot of the Cryptorbit virus as following.
Definition: PUP stands for potentially unwanted program and PUP.Optional.bProtector.A manages to display pop-up ads even all scripts are blocked.
Risk Factor Exponent: Severe for several reasons
Hardest hit: United States
OS being attacked: Windows
Tips for prevention: Follow good PC practice
Removal method: Manual method
PUP.Optional.bProtector.A stems from PUP family that mainly refers to items that give away pop ups such as Scorpion Saver that used as a tool to obtain high click rate to help gain a profitable return and promote products aggressively. Due to the commercial purpose, merchants deny the term as virus and much prefer the term as potentially unwanted programs since advertisements do impose undesirable effect to some groups.
PUP.Optional.bProtector.A acts much like Trojan, being a core supporting software to operate to its satisfactory. Usually, PUP.Optional.bProtector.A is caught right after its supported items being installed along with the software a target was installing. Since most PC users are used to continuously clicking on “Next” button when installing a program without checking on incident software that sponsors the host program, pup.optional.bprotector.a has settled on many computers in U.S.A. with drive-by download method as shown by the data extracted from the observation launched by VilmaTech Research Lab so far.
