How to remove West Yorkshire Police screen lock from your PC?
West Yorkshire Police screen lock is another scam created by Cyber criminals, this ransomware is targeting computer users who live in England. To make this fake message appear more legitimate Internet criminals are exploiting the name of West Yorkshire Police. If your computer is infected with this ransomware you won't be able to access your desktop. This message states that your computer has been used for illegal activities such as child pornography etc. and you are asked to pay a fine of 100 pounds to unlock your PC.
You shouldn't pay anything, this screen lock is a scam - none of the authorities are using such methods to collect fines for any illegal activities that you may have done with your computer. Most commonly such ransomware as West Yorkshire Police screen lock is spread using misleading websites and security vulnerabilities found on your computer. The payment methods (Ukash and Paysafecard) are selected by cyber criminals to make it almost impossible to track them.
Furthermore this ransomware encrypts all of your files that are stored on your computer's HDD. This makes this scam especially rogue and complicated to remove. To make the fake message appear more legitimate ransomware creators are exploiting the names of local authorities. Moreover this ransomware displays screenshots of recently viewed websites. Notice that West Yorkshire Police virus is targeted at PC users from England, this scam is translated to various languages and users from different countries will see this deceptive message differently. Such localisation is possible because ransomware infections can detect the IP address of the computer that they are about to infiltrate. If you see such message on your computer you shouldn't pay this fake fine, and use the provided removal information to help you unlock your PC and decrypt your files.
Fake message shown in West Yorkshire Police screen lock:
Association of Chief Police Officers. Your Computer is locked!
WARNING!
Please wait, your data is being verified!
If you enter the correct code and pay the fine, you will regain access to your computer.
If you enter a wrong code, this message will reappear.
If you enter a wrong code three times, your hard drive will be completely wiped, your computer will be damaged and unusable.
You IP-address will be stored in our database. (If you go with your IP address back to pornographic web pages) and your case will be transferred to special task force to further investigation! Estimated verification time is 4 hours... Your computer was used for illegal purposes. Your Windows licence number has been identified. You Windows licence number was involved in violation of the UK laws. Your IP address was used for the following illicit activities: visiting web pages of pornographic nature, including child pornography, sadomasochism and child abuse.
As it has been determined that your comuter contains videos of pornographic nature, child pornography, and child abuse, it is being blocked to prevent furhter violation of law. You will regain access to your computer after paying a fine of 100 pounds. There are two ways to pay the fine:
1. Pay Ukash:
Enter the purchased payment code in the payment field and press OK (in case of several codes, enter them as one line, one after the other, in the payment field and press OK).
2. Pay paysafecard:
Enter the purchased payment code in the payment field and press OK (in case of several codes, enter them as one line, one after the other, in the payment field and press OK).
Where can I buy a Ukash?
There are many ways to buy Ukash, for example.
1. Inpay - You can get a Ukash voucher in values from 10 - 500 pounds and pay using your Internet bank.
2. Epay - get Ukash from up to 6,000 stores nationwide displaying the epay sign.
3. Pay point - Get Ukash wherever you see the PayPoint sign.
West Yorkshire Police.
West Yorkshire Police screen lock removal:
Step 1
During your computer starting process press F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then select Safe mode with networking from the list and press ENTER.
Step 2
Log in to the account that is infected with West Yorkshire Police scam. Start your Internet browser and download a legitimate anti-spyware program. Update the anti-spyware software and start a full system scan. Remove all the entries that it detects.
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Can't boot in Safe Mode with Networking? (West Yorkshire Police virus blocks Safe Mode with Networking)
Other methods which can be used to eliminate this ransomware infection from your PC:
Remove West Yorkshire Police virus by creating a new user account.
West Yorkshire Police scam removal using System Restore.
Remove West Yorkshire Police ransomware using a Rescue Disk.
Notice that after using one of these methods to eliminate this ransomware from your computer you will need to run Kasperky Rannoh Decryptor tool to decrypt your files.
Alternative West Yorkshire Police scam removal guide:
If this ransomware blocks your screen when you start your computer in safe mode with networking, try starting your PC in safe mode with command prompt.
1. During your computer starting process press F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then select Safe mode with command prompt from the list and press ENTER.
2. In the opened command prompt type explorer and press Enter. This command will open explorer window, don't close it and continue to the next step.
3. In the command prompt type regedit and press Enter. This will open the registry editor window.
4. In the registry editor window you should navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
5. In the right side of the window locate "Shell" and right click on it. Click on Modify. The default value data is Explorer.exe if you see something else written in this window remove it and type in Explorer.exe (you can write down whatever else was written in the value data section - this is a path of the rogue execution file) - use this information to navigate to the rogue executable and remove it.
6. Restart your computer, download and install a legitmate anti-spyware software and perform a full system scan to eliminate any left remnants of West Yorkshire Police scam.
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If you can't start your computer in safe mode with networking (or with command prompt) you should boot your computer using a rescue disk. Some variants of ransomware disables safe mode making it's removal more complicated. For this step you will need access to another computer. After removing West Yorkshire Police scam from your PC restart your computer and scan it with a legitimate antispyware software to remove any possibly left remnants of this security infection.
Step 3
This ransomware encrypts all of the files on your computer. To decrypt your files download and run Kaspersky's Rannoh Decryptor. After launching this software click "Start Scan" button. Average scan time is about 2 hours.
After completing these steps your computer should be clean, reboot your computer in normal mode.
Other tools known to remove West Yorkshire Police screen lock:
Some malicious software modifies browser settings and disables downloads of spyware and virus removing software. If you have problems downloading anti-spyware software with Internet Explorer, try downloading with Chrome, FireFox, Opera, etc.
If you can't access Internet:
Load your computer in safe mode. Click Start, click Shut down, click Restart, click OK. During your computer starting process press F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until you see Windows Advanced Option menu, then select Safe mode with networking from the list.
Start Task manager. Press ctrl+alt+del (or ctrl+shift+esc) and end task the processes of rogue program. ( if after this procedure you can't access any programs press ctrl+alt+del, click File, select New Task, and type explorer.exe then press OK.
Open Internet explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options. Select Connections, then click LAN settings, if a Use a proxy server for your LAN is checked, un-check it and press OK.
After this procedure you should be able to access Internet. Now you can download anti-spyware software from our "Top spyware removers" section and run a full scan. Download, install and don't forget to update your selected anti-spyware program.
Manual West Yorkshire Police scam removal:
If you were unable to remove West Yorkshire Police screen lock using the steps above, you can use this manual removal instruction. Use it at your own risk. If you don't have strong computer knowledge you could harm your operating system. Be careful and use it only if you are an experienced computer user. (Instructions on how to end processes, remove registry entries...)
End these West Yorkshire Police screen lock processes:
random.exe
Delete these West Yorkshire Police screen lock files:
%Temp%\<random>.exe
%StartupFolder%\ctfmon.lnk
If you continue to have problems removing this ransomware try booting your computer using a rescue disk.