Is your system infected with a serious ransomware program that dared to name itself as Metropolitan Police warning? Well, you’re not alone. There are many users primarily from the European Union whose PCs got contaminated with this serious cyber disease. But the point is that this virus has nothing to do with well-known UK’s police and its other law enforcement bodies. Neither it has to do with the Police Central E-crimes Unit of Specialist Crime Directorate. This is just the way hackers prepared themselves to reap earnings with extremely unfair methods. They developed a special Trojan horse that infects computers and locks them completely. Afterwards the system turns out to be totally inoperable. The locked status remains after numerous reboots, and user cannot do any business on the infected workstation. There are various sites that tell how to deal with ransomware infections. Some of them are effective whereas some are not. The point is that this virus (also referred to by some as Met Police ransomware) has several versions, and sometimes the removal instructions fit for one version of it and cannot be applied towards other versions. What is the remedy if your PC has been locked with Metropolitan Police system hijacker?

File Recovery is a brand new malware program that pursues the goal of scaring users a lot. It does this by arranging many fake scans of your computer and reporting various disorders. In particular, you’re reported of many bogus problems with your PC having to do with memory, hard drives and other system malfunctions. Of course, such information is very scary especially when you don’t know about its true origin and fake character. This is the goal of malware developers that elaborated it – to make you think your system is in danger by producing (inventing) all kinds of unreal problems with your machine. When you hear about them from File Recovery application that looks exactly like the one you see at the screenshot – this is a trap that you must not step into. Otherwise you’re under a serious risk of losing your funds if you follow the malicious and misleading instructions of its developers.

The fake HDD applications, such as System Fix and System Check as its successor today, are known to hide the important data on the infected computers. Some users think that the information is gone completely, i.e. deleted by virus. But this is not true. The virus actually relocates the files to another special destination purposefully created by it. Then the malware tells you that it will restore your data if you pay for it. We all know these deceitful stories very well, don’t we? This is the exact purpose of the malwares like System Check. They want to make users pay for their totally useless software elaborated to empty the pockets and credit card accounts of trusting PC users. Do not panic! This is exactly what the malware expects from you. It wants you to effect the payment for its full version. Wait a moment and perform some research. Google the problem and you will find out that there is the solution to your case. The first solution is the effective removal of fake HDD tool. The second solution is the restoration of your missing data. Please find out how to do it in the section below. The utilities to restore the icons and other important data are totally free.

Ping.exe stands for the command line application available for all Windows operating systems. It was elaborated in order to check whether a certain PC on a network or the Internet really exists and is connected to this network. The legitimate application is typically launched from C:\WINDOWS\system32\. In general, it shouldn’t cause any bugs or difficulties. Regretfully, there are malicious tools presenting themselves as Ping.exe and thus causing major PC slowdown due to extremely high CPU usage. You can terminate Ping.exe by means of Task Manager but it will re-load itself within a couple of minutes and would cause the same 100% CPU usage, just as before.