• Polizei virus
    Browser hijackers - Malicious sites - Ransomware

    Remove freizeitpolicen.de and freizeitpolice.de fake BKA and GVU warnings

    January 20, 2014 - By 

    This article is to assist users in Germany, Austria and other German-speaking countries to get rid of freizeitpolice.de fake police alert which you might see in your browser. This scam is not related to BKA or GVU, or any other law-enforcement bodies of these countries. This is a virus, not a real police warning. If you see this scary alert from site freizeitpolicen.de on your PC this means your browser has been blocked by a virus, not by the police. You must ignore any scary data presented in the text of this locker, and hurry up to remove the threat…

  • Ransomware

    BKA Trojaner (BundesKriminalamt ransomware)

    October 28, 2013 - By 

    BKA Trojaner is a computer infection currently targeting German-speaking countries (Austria, Switzerland,Belgium, and Germany, of course). It is quite possible that other countries might be attacked by this virus as well. The program is classified as a ransomware because it completely locks the desktop of the infected PC and then asks users to pay the ransom (money to unlock the screen). Hackers have elaborated various designs of this computer locker and several mechanisms of how it attacks the PC and the consequences of the locked status. There are several ransomware families which might use the design of this BKA (BundesKriminalamt)…