Luxembourg Police Ransomware Virus

The Luxembourg Police Virus may tell you that Luxembourg Police Virus is a notice from French law enforcement that's forced to lock your PC because of the crimes that you've committed, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have connected its true origins to ransomware Trojans that exploit random PC users for criminal profits. Luxembourg Police Virus's family of ransomware Trojans, known as Reveton, distributes different alerts for various countries throughout North America and Europe, with the Luxembourg Police Virus, obviously, focusing on France. The Luxembourg Police Virus recommends paying a legal fine to avoid any other penalties, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend that you do the exact opposite: ignore Luxembourg Police Virus's warnings, remove Luxembourg Police Virus with a quality anti-malware program and feel free to go about your Internet-surfing as you like.

The Luxembourg Police Virus: a New Tentacle for the Ransomware Kraken that's Strangling France's Cyberspace

The Luxembourg Police Virus, while a fresh face to the ransomware Trojan epidemic that has been rampant throughout France, Germany and much of the rest of Europe, ultimately uses the same types of attacks and malicious functions as other members of the Reveton family. Installation methods for Luxembourg Police Virus, which SpywareRemove.com malware experts have found to use Blacole exploits or other Trojans, usually detect the IP address of the attacked computer. This allows Luxembourg Police Virus or a different type of ransomware-based PC threat to be installed, with the malware chosen corresponding to the country of the IP address.

However, Luxembourg Police Virus isn't the only ransomware Trojan to attack France and isn't even the only member of its family to be seen in recent French ransomware-based assaults. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers also noted the rise of the closely-related France Ministère de l'Intérieur Virus, in addition to other ransomware Trojans like 'Attention! Votre ordinateur a ete pour violation' ransomware, Votre ordinateur est bloqué Gendarmerie Ransomware, Police Nationale FR Ransomware, Office Central de Lutte contre la Criminalité Ransomware, Gendarmerie Nationale Ransomware and Sacem Police Nationale Ransomware.

Like all of the above Trojans, the Luxembourg Police Virus displays a pop-up alert that claims to be transmitted by a police or government agency – in this instance, the Luxembourg police's department of cybercrime. This alert claims to be caused by crimes like downloading copyrighted music or viewing illegal pornography. An important secondary function in Luxembourg Police Virus's attack also is to block you from using other programs on your computer, which makes getting rid of Luxembourg Police Virus even harder than usual.

Putting Luxembourg Police Virus Back Down Where It Belongs

Despite the Luxembourg Police Virus's pretensions, SpywareRemove.com malware research team emphasizes that the Luxembourg Police Virus isn't connected to the Luxembourg police or any other branch of French law enforcement. Similarly, the Luxembourg Police Virus doesn't try to detect any of the crimes that Luxembourg Police Virus claims are responsible for its attack, and you should feel free to ignore all of the fake legal warnings that Luxembourg Police Virus's pop-up issues.

Luxembourg Police Virus tells you to use either Ukash or Paysafecard to make a payment that will grant you an unlock code, but there's no reason from a USB device can be used to block Luxembourg Police Virus from launching itself.

As a ransomware Trojan that may be installed with other forms of malware, the Luxembourg Police Virus should be deleted through anti-malware scans whenever such utilities are available. Competent anti-malware products also should be able to remove undesirable system changes from a Luxembourg Police Virus infection, although, in extreme cases, manual changes may also be required.

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