I have a FBI Child Porn Warning Pop-up on my android. Last night, my son asked me to give him my phone to play games, but when he gave the phone back, I found that it was locked with a warning page. It claimed that I have violated the law for watching child pornography. I was shocked at first so I asked my son if he had done something wrong on my phone. He just told me that he just clicked something by mistake and something had been downloaded on the background then the warning came out. After that, I did some research on the web and noticed that it is a virus. Now my phone is blocked completely, I can’t do anything on it. How can I fix it? Please advise. Hello, my brother last night was on a site and it took him to a whole bunch of sites that ended up being the Pop up of the FBI Child Porn warningpage and threatening that they are going to send to all his contacts that he did something illegal but he didn’t, and they want $500 or they will do it and they have his information, someone help please. I know it’s fake but it’s really scary and we’re panicking we just want it to go away and for the hacker not to send false information to all of my brothers contacts.

Brief Introduction to This Virus

Nowadays, Android devices including phones and tablets have become an important part for the daily life of people as they can help users fulfill many tasks and bring entertainment for the spare time. Under this case, cyber criminals who want to get illegal benefits from innocent people design this FBI Child Porn Warning Pop-up virus to attack the Android device. Those bad crooks abuse the authority to threaten victims that they have done something illegal on their Android devices which police will come after them if they don’t pay the so called fine on the warning page. However, this virus has nothing to do with the police as it is a common sense that police will never lock devices on the web, usually, if a person break the law, police will send agents to his house directly.

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However, when people get this fake FBI Child Porn Warning Pop-up virus on their devices, they must be panic and get complete bland minds. They can hardly distinguish if this warning is real or fake at all as the page looks real legit with police logo and laws listed on the page. On the page, victims are asked to pay a great amount of money through Moneypak or Paypal. It tells that once people pay the fine, their device can be unlocked instantly. But, we have found that, a lot of people report that even they paid to fine, their devices are still locked which can prove that it is a virus at all. If this virus cannot be removed, the devices can always be locked.

There are a lot of ways for hackers to spread this infection on the Internet. Cyber hackers can forge this FBI Child Porn Pop-up virus with other names like MP3 player, Movie searcher or so on to lure people to download and install on their Android devices. So as soon as people install the fake app on their devices, this virus can be activated. By popping up a fake warning on the devices, it can block everything on the infected devices which users will not able to do anything else on the devices even power off the device is an impossible thing. No matter how many times people turn on and turn off the infected devices, they won’t escape from the fake block.

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 FBI Child Porn Pop-up malware. Please contact YooSecurity Online Experts for manual removal guide.

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

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 users encounter this FBI Child Porn Warning on their Android devices, they must not believe in it as it is a Trojan virus or we can call it ransomware. It used the police to scare people that they have broken the laws and need to pay money to escape further punishment. It is useless to pay the money as it can go the cyber hackers directly. When you see this infection on your device, what you need to do is not to pay the fine, but find the way to get rid of this infection as soon as possible.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide to get out of FBI Child Porn Warning Pop-up 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 March 23, 2018 3:04 am

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