How to Remove USA Cyber Crime Investigations Virus Ransomware

USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus is a malicious ransomware that locks your computer with an announcement that your computer is locked because you have done something illegal such as violating copy-right, spreading pornography and using unlicensed software. In order to unlock the computer you must pay a fine of $300. Apart from that, it declares on the screen that you only have 48 hours to pay the money. If the money has not been paid on time, your computer will be confiscated and you will be taken to court. This declaration sounds believable and looks like it’s really from the police office, but in fact this is common tricks that many cyber criminals usually used t to gain illegal profit. All of the messages on the screen are designed to cheat you to pay the demanding $300. Therefore, don’t believe these fake warnings; don’t be taken in when you see this declaration on your screen. What you should do is to remove this ransomware as soon as possible, because this ransomware also has the capabilities to collect your personal information such as passwords, online banking data and credit card accounts. So you are supposed to ignore everything it shows on the screen and remove Homeland Security virus from your computer immediately before you get into more serious trouble.

How does USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus spread?

1. USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus is mainly spread by Trojan virus which originals from unsafe websites
2. PC users get installed with USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus when they are downloading infected freeware or malicious applications.
3. The USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus can be spread through a floppy disk or USB device. When the floppy disk or USB device is infected and bundled with USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus files, the virus codes and files can be transferred into the computer.
4. Besides that, when you open infected Email attachments, USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus will transfer itself from computer to computer.

Why manual removal is the most effective way to remove USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus?

When your computer is infected with virus, maybe your first thought is to get rid of it by using your security applications. However, when being faced with USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus, your antivirus program cannot work. To be frank, there is not any perfect antivirus that can handle all computer viruses because new viruses always change continually to avoid being found.

Different from other viruses, the USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus has the ability to lock the screen and other programs of the infected machine. As a result, USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus cannot be terminated through antivirus software. Therefore, users should use effective manual removal to delete USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus permanently.

How to remove Mandiant U.S.A Cyber Security virus manually?

To completely remove USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus from your computer, all the related files and registry entries will need to be deleted. Any one of the leaving component will not be successful.  

1. Restart your computer into safe mode with networking:

Reboot the computer, tap "F8" key constantly before the Windows starting to launch, use the arrow keys to select the "Safe Mode with Networking" option and press the Enter key.

2. Open the Windows Task Manager(CTRL+ALT+DELETE) to stop all USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus processes.

[random name].exe

3. Click "Start" menu and click "Run", enter "regedit" into the box and press the Enter key.

4. Search the keys from the pop up window and delete all of them:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ USA Cyber Crime Investigations virus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor "AutoRun" = "<malware path>\<random>.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%LocalAppData%\<random 3 chars>.exe" -a "%1" %*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<random>
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\<random>\DefaultIcon "(Default)" = '%1'
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell = "explorer.exe,%AppData%\skype.dat"

5. Locate to the system files and get them removed manually:

%AppData%\\.exe
%AppData%\p1.exe
%CommonAppData%\.


Note: The files and registry entries are very important to the operating system. Users should be highly cautious or it will crash your system if any real system files would be deleted. In case you are not able to find the listed files, please click and get an online help here.