Today many active PC users suffer a lot due to the problem of their browser being hijacked with scour.com online redirection trojan. It is also known as click.scour.com redirect issue. This means that instead of their normal browser interface they see the unusual background and the search bar that associates itself with scour.com. When they indicate certain search request the chances are that they will find some information they need, however, there may also be other redirection to certain unwanted sites, with various off-topic results also generated. This is the variant of unfair goods promotion and e-commerce, but the saddest part is that this is also a special virus infection that takes the direct part in redirection of your search engine. There are also chances that this virus may also bring other serious malwares into your computer. So, as you see, users must be very careful when they deal with such browser redirection issues.

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.

Metropolitan Police fake warning

At this very present moment thousands of computers, primarily in Europe, are being actively attacked and hijacked by the virus bearing the name of Metropolitan Police scam. The very first statement you encounter after your PC has been infected with this ransomware application is as follows: ‘Metropolitan Police. Attention! Illegal activity was revealed!’ Ransomware stands for certain malware program which snatches your PC, hijacks it in a way that you can hardly do anything with it and then scares you with the message of you being supposedly noticed to download, watch and spread certain illegal content. It then says that this supposed illegal behavior on your part is the cause of such blockage. Afterwards the malware offers you to pay certain amount of money to have this problem fixed, promising you not to report any of such sinful actions on your part if only you donate certain amount of money via Ukash service. For this reason some users whose PC were infected with this scam name it as Ukash virus, however, it has nothing to do with Ukash company. It does not spread this virus nor does it support such fraudulent activities of the cyber crooks and criminals who elaborated this indeed scary program.

At present time many users worldwide experience a lot of problems with their PC due to the malware persistency on their computers. In particular, they have the problem of missing files, disappeared icons, empty, black or blank desktop, without the ability to actually see any files or folders in order to use them. In addition, the entire list of the programs in the Start menu would also seem to be gone. All the above-mentioned problems are caused by viruses originating from the same family that “gave birth” to System Fix, System Restore, Data Restore, Data Repair and Data Recovery hoaxes. The list could be much longer, of course. These malwares belong to the category of fake hard drive defragmenters. They first started to attack computers quite a long time ago, this first happened in the autumn of the year 2010. Once these pests penetrate into the attacked computer they do their job of scaring user whose PC got infected. First of all they do the job of hiding all important data, making files and folders actually invisible. However, they are not deleted. They are simply relocated to another folder specially designated by this rogue program. Then, once the job of hiding the data is accomplished, the very virus program appears, saying that it will fix the PC if you pay for its full version.