GARDA ‘Your Computer Has Been Blocked’ Ransomware

The GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is one of the latest Police Ransomware Trojans to specialize in attacking Irish victims, similar to the 'An Garda Siochana Ireland's National Police Service' Ransomware or the 'Tá do ríomhaire cosc curtha' Ransomware. Like them, the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware claims to be authorized by Ireland's Gardai to block your computer for its use in typical criminal activities like breaking copyright law. In spite of its accusations, the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware launches its attack without any lawful authority or attempt to verify its claims, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend taking all necessary actions to safely disable and, eventually, remove the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware with anti-malware tools.

The GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware: the Guardian You Can't Trust

While not as frequently targeted as, for example, Germany or the United States, Ireland does occasionally receive its own specially-formatted ransomware Trojan attacks. The GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is the latest of such fake Police Trojans to be identified and is based on the same family as the Polizja Biuro Służby Kryminalnej Ransomware, the FBI Department of Defense Ransomware, the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance Virus, the Policia Nacional de Uruguay Virus, the Rikspolisstyrelsen Ransomware, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Ransomware, the Ministry of Public Safety Canada Ransomware, the Dirección General de la Policía Ransomware, the 'Mandiant U.S.A Cyber Security' Ransomware and the Rikspolisstyrelsen Ransomware.

After the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is installed (usually through a spam-distributed Trojan dropper or a website's drive-by-download attack), the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware sets itself to launch automatically whenever Windows starts and displays a borderless browser pop-up that can neither be closed nor minimized. The GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware's pop-up insists that your computer has been used for online crimes that warrant its being locked. Although this fake warning message cites the Garda Síochána na hÉireann and related Irish law-enforcing organizations, the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware actually is unaffiliated with any kind of law enforcement for Ireland or elsewhere. This lockdown supposedly will be undone once you pay the ransom that the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware demands, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts haven't found any legitimate unlocking function from the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware and warn that any money paid merely goes to finance the projects of malware-developing criminals.

Guarding Your Own PC Against Imposter Guardians of the Peace

The GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is not a real law enforcement program and does not need to be paid off to get your PC back to normal. However, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers do warn that, like most fake Police Trojans, the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware will severely constrict your accessibility for most other Windows applications as long as the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is active. To prevent the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware's system lockdown after the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware is already installed, you may consider using Safe Mode or, in extreme cases, simply booting your computer through any USB thumb drive. Once the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware's lockdown has been bypassed, any reasonable anti-malware program should be able to remove the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware freely.

SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have previously found strong ties between fake Police Trojans like the GARDA 'Your Computer Has Been Blocked' Ransomware and exploit kits like Blackhole Exploit Kit or Sweet Orange, which can install malware onto your computer automatically. Protection against these infection vectors usually takes the form of browser-based security features (such as disabling Java), as well as having anti-malware software that's capable of blocking malicious website attacks as they're triggered.