All possible tricks of the extortion banner
An extortion engine at the moment the fastest distribution of a computer banner, infecting a large number of computers every day. Banner SMS extortionist – “flagship” from new infections. This virus infects the user’s computer mainly when it downloads any infected application, of course not knowing about it, but in fact the malicious code is deeply hidden in presumably safe applications, such as: flash updates, video, free music, desktop wallpaper And much more. In addition, the banner can be installed on your computer when you visit a completely legal, but hackneyed site. If you often visit and use P2P networks, torrent and mockery sites, then the chances are for you to become victims of the extortionist virus very great.
As soon as the banner is installed on the victim’s computer, the extortionist virus immediately issues that the WebMoney computer is blocked and reports that the PC owner was noticed when downloading materials protected by the copyright, viewing children’s pornography, and other illegal content. The message says that you must send a fine of 1000, 2000 rubles by paying MTS mobile communications, Beeline through the payment system, terminal or all your actions will be transferred to the federal authorities for further proceedings. The extortion center is programmed specifically to pump out cash from the user for non -existent computer unlocking code and most people easily lend themselves to this and transfer money.
What is the extortionist virus blocks?
With the help of Trojan, named Winlock, the extortion banner literally locks your PC on the castle. And you cannot do anything, the desktop, programs and documents will be completely inaccessible to you. You can’t even start the tasks dispatcher with which you can turn off the advanced virus processes. Sometimes it is possible to remove the banner and unlock Windows Trojan Winlock by uploading a computer in safe mode. After which you can start all the necessary actions for unlocking, find executable files and clean the registry of malicious records. Unfortunately, there are SMS banners extortionists, which blocks and safe mode, so, thus, complicating its unlocking.
New type of extortion banners
The developers of malware went even further in their criminal activities, they complicated the scam to intimidate users using the webcam component. For those who have a functional webcam, can see their photos on the screen of the extortion banner in order to scare you that your actions are also recorded. Agree that it looks really scary, but you should not worry – all this is a fake. Although there are a lot of Internet users in fact who are maintained on this scam.
The last weapon of the extortionist virus against you is try to disable (even remove) your antivirus software. Security experts found that she successfully disconnects Malwarebytes and AVG. This means that the Rencaner virus can infect your computer, even if you have an antivirus program launched.