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Originally Posted by Brian.Pearson
For some reason that link is not working for me. I tried three browsers.
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Your browser is highjacked. You are mostly likely SOL.
You might be able to recover but this is a particulary nasty infection. Call the Department of Justice and report the website and their host. Recently pushed legistation makes it an undeniable crime to purposely push this app to clients via the Internet.
If anyone else has the misfortunes off stumbling into a XP Police enabled website, power your computer down immediately. Unless you're IT and know what you're doing press and hold the power button until your machine cuts off. Do not click start/shutdown nor start/restart. Hold power.
First thing you'll want to try, do a system restore. If you're successful you may be alright. I'd look for similiar symptoms that you previously experienced after it's installation. I'd then look in my program files for xp police folder, if's there double click to see if the folder has any files. It's bad if the folder has files. And if the folders there, the files are probaly there as well.
If you can't do a system restore or find the folder/files. Turn of your system restore. If not, XP Police likes to hide files there and restore itself. Nasty bastard.
I'd search the reg for XP Police and remove all keys/values which reference. Additionally, the link you cant hyperlink says to remove this registry value:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\curre ntversion\run ieupdate
The link also advises to delete the following files. If you get a mssg that the file is in use, find yourself a delete application that deletes anything and everything. Delete these files:
XPPolice.exe
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\AVCoreFn.dll
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\bdconf.cfg
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Core.dll
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\setup.dat
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\xppolice.exe
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ceva_dll.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\sounds
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\sounds\alert.wav
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ceva_emu.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ceva_vfs.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ceva_vfs.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cevakrnl.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cevakrnl.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cevakrnl.rvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cookie.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cran.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\cran.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\e_spyw.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\e_spyw.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\emalware.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\gvmscripts.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\hpe.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\java.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mdx_97.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mdx_97.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mdx_w95.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mdx_x95.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mdx_xf.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\mobmalware.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\na.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\nelf.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\regarch.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\regscan.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\rup.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\sdx.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\sdx.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\unpack.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\unpack.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\vb0.dat
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\vb1.dat
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\vb2.dat
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ve.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\ve.ivd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Plugins\vedata.cvd
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\sounds\click.wav
c:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\sounds\fire.wav
%UserProfile%\Desktop\XP Police Antivirus.LNK
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\XP Police Antivirus.LNK
After deleting those files, install, update and scan with my favorite trifecta:
spybot
adaware
avg
Good luck.