I think I got a virus on my Samsung phone. Last night, I clicked a link sent from my friend and I had been taken to a video site. Suddenly, my phone got locked by a message, it says that I have visit illegal site and it blocks the phone for safety reason. It looks like a warning from police. I was scared. I turned off my phone and turned it back on, but this message still appeared. After going online to search about this thing, I realize that it is a scam virus. How can I take it off from my phone? Any suggestion?

How Do You Get Rid of Viruses on Your Phone from Porn Sites?

Phone said visited illegal site when you didn’t, but you got a warning from police? Nowadays, cyber hackers create many viruses which aim to attack phones and tablets. Those devices have become important parts for people’s daily life. Generally, the viruses that designed by hackers can block the infected devices completely or hijack the browsers on the devices. The only purpose of those viruses is to threaten people to pay a great amount of money by cheating them that they have violated the law for doing illegal activities on the devices. Under no circumstance, should people pay to those viruses. The warning is totally fake, it is only a trick made by cyber criminals.

Similar Scam Viruses Screenshots on Android Device

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There are too many ways for cyber hackers to spread those scam viruses to innocent people. Usually, those bad crooks can implant those viruses to the pages which have already been corrupted by them. It is not an easy thing for users to prevent it from coming as some reputable pages can be attacked by those hackers as well. When people go to those infected domains, the viruses can be downloaded and installed automatically on the background. We don’t suggest people go to visit porn sites as those pages are the main sources which can contain different kinds of viruses.

When people get these scam viruses on their phones or tablets, this virus can pop up a warning message which can occupy the whole screen. Hackers can forge this message coming from the real police to deceive people. What’s more, the location, IP address and device model can be listed on the page to make it be more real. When people see their information showed on the message, they will be panic. No one wants to get into trouble with police. Those viruses can cheat people that they have done something illegal which need to pay penalty, otherwise, they will be taken further punishment by the police. However, if people pay to these viruses, their devices can still be locked. That’s to say, paying the so-called fine will not help you unlock your device. In order to get your device back to normal, what you need to do is to find an effective to remove the virus on your device.

The Traits of the Infection

-Can lock the device and won’t let you do anything on it
-Tells you that you must pay for the violation of law by using MoneyPak or some other ways.
-You are charged for doing something illegal, but actually you didn’t.
-Tells you that your activities in this device have been recorded and your files have been encrypted.
-Your IP address and some basic information are listed on the page.

Finding all or some of these symptoms on your android device, sorry to say that your device is infected by Fake Police Scam Virus. Please contact YooSecurity Online Experts for manual removal guide.

Manual Removal Guide to Unlock Your Android Phone from Fake Police Scam Virus(For Literate)

How Do You Get Rid of Viruses on Your Phone from Porn Sites? When your mobile device was Blocked by ransomware, there was a warning alert on your screen. There is a removal guide provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Try to access the safe mode on the infected device.

What is safe mode on an android device? Just like the safe mode on Windows computers, the safe mode on android device is a diagnostic mode. It is intended to fix the issues that happen on the problematic device. In safe mode, the phone will reduce functionality. Typically, the safe mode loads as few executable modules as possible and disable all the non-core components to run. In one word, safe mode only runs the system without the third-party software.

How to get the safe mode on an android device?

There are too many brands of android devices in the world, so the way to get the safe mode can be various. We will only take a group of them as examples, if you can’t follow the tips to get the same mode on your device, please go online to find the right way to access the safe mode as the safe mode is premise to remove this infection from your device.

For Samsung Galaxy S4: 1. Power down. 2. Turn on and repeatedly tap the soft-button for “Menu.”

For Samsung Galaxy S3 and others: 1. Power down. 2. Turn on, then press and hold Volume Down (Galaxy S3 and others), Volume Up (HTC One and others), or Volume Down and Volume Up together (various Motorola devices) when the vendor’s logo appears.

If you have managed to select Safe Mode, you will see the text “Safe Mode” at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Step 2: If you can find “Safe Mode” on the left hand corner, that means your device is in safe mode already, please contact our expert for further removal instruction.
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Conclusion:

When you receive a warning saying you have visit illegal sites on your device, do not trust what it says to you. Your device is targeted by a scam which can block your device completely. It is not a real police message at all. Cyber hackers design such kind of scam virus to attack innocent people all over the world. The ways for them to spread those scam viruses can be various. If people are careless about their online activates, they can be easily have their devices locked by the scam viruses. The only purpose of those infections is to help hackers to gain illegal benefits from victims. Do not pay to the virus as it won’t help you unlock your device. To get your device back to work, you need to get rid of the virus completely.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide to get out of Fake Police Scam Virus that mentioned above, a quite level of knowledge is needed. Otherwise, the wrong operating on the safe mode can make the situation even worse. Please make sure you are capable of dealing with this. If not, please Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on July 21, 2016 2:00 am

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