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How To Delete The Metropolitan Police Virus
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Metropolitan Police malware removal.
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1)Reboot your computer is Safe Mode with Command Prompt. As the computer is booting tap the F8 key continuously which should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move to Safe Mode with Command Prompt and press Enter key. Login as the same user you were previously logged in with in the normal Windows mode.
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2)When Windows loads, the Windows command prompt will show up as show in the image below. At the command prompt, type explorer, and press Enter. Windows Explorer opens. Do not close it.
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3) Then open the Registry editor using the same Windows command prompt. Type regedit and press Enter. The Registry Editor opens.
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4)Locate the following registry entry-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
In the righthand pane select the registry key named Shell. Right click on this registry key and choose Modify.
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Default value is Explorer.exe.
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Modified value data points to Trojan Ransomware executable file.
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Please copy the location of the executable file it points to into Notepad or otherwise note it and then change value data to Explorer.exe. Click OK to save your changes and exit the Registry editor.
5) Remove the malicous file. Use the file location you saved into Notepad or otherwise noted in step in previous step. In our case, "Metropolitan Police" was run from the Desktop. There was a file called movie.exe.
Full path: C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\movie.exe
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Go back into Normal Mode. To restart your computer, at the command prompt, type shutdown /r /t 0 and press Enter.
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Any Questions or need any advice on different problems just send me a message.
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1)Reboot your computer is Safe Mode with Command Prompt. As the computer is booting tap the F8 key continuously which should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu" as shown below. Use your arrow keys to move to Safe Mode with Command Prompt and press Enter key. Login as the same user you were previously logged in with in the normal Windows mode.
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2)When Windows loads, the Windows command prompt will show up as show in the image below. At the command prompt, type explorer, and press Enter. Windows Explorer opens. Do not close it.
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3) Then open the Registry editor using the same Windows command prompt. Type regedit and press Enter. The Registry Editor opens.
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4)Locate the following registry entry-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\
In the righthand pane select the registry key named Shell. Right click on this registry key and choose Modify.
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Default value is Explorer.exe.
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Modified value data points to Trojan Ransomware executable file.
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Please copy the location of the executable file it points to into Notepad or otherwise note it and then change value data to Explorer.exe. Click OK to save your changes and exit the Registry editor.
5) Remove the malicous file. Use the file location you saved into Notepad or otherwise noted in step in previous step. In our case, "Metropolitan Police" was run from the Desktop. There was a file called movie.exe.
Full path: C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop\movie.exe
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Go back into Normal Mode. To restart your computer, at the command prompt, type shutdown /r /t 0 and press Enter.
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Any Questions or need any advice on different problems just send me a message.
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Good Tut. This will help a lot of people. I knew how to do this already tho.
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just thought id'e make it for people who had the virus who couldn't get on their computer and used somebody else's and thought the techgame would be a good idea to post this tutorial.
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Good tutorial works fine
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iSiri wrote Good tutorial works fine
Thanks mate i hope it helps alot of people in the long run.
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Happened to me a couple months back, Did this and it works, nice one on making a TuT for those who won't know what they're doing.
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Thanks guys i just hope people see that i have put alot of time and effort it for other people so they dont have to.
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Pato wrote Happened to me a couple months back, Did this and it works, nice one on making a TuT for those who won't know what they're doing.
Cheers mate hope it helps alot of people
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