Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Removal of Die echtheit Ihrer Windows-Kopie Extorting popup

“Die echtheit Ihrer Windows-Kopie wurde automatisch überprüft und nicht bestätigt”, which English meaning is that your copy of Windows has been checked and its authenticity verification failed. That is the reason why the alert demands from you a payment of EUR 100 allegedly to avoid further prosecuting. A familiar trick, for there have already been similar scams of Bundespolizei popup, La policía ESPAÑOLA popup, Metropolitan Police popups. These scams were managed by the same crooks, which are now applying effort to distribute the virus that speaks on behalf of Microsoft and displays the alert that starts with the sentence in German specified above.
When the alerts is shown, your desktop might be locked, and the only viable solution to get rid of “Die echtheit Ihrer Windows-Kopie wurde automatisch überprüft und nicht bestätigt” popup would be a system reboot. On rebooting click here to instantly launch downloading antivirus that will remove Die echtheit Ihrer Windows-Kopie virus on detecting and quarantining it, thus providing no chance for it to lock your PC again.
Alternate way of containing the malware is to enter the following string into the activation filed the popup provides:
QRT5T5FJQE53BGXT9HHJW53YT
This code should quiet the virus, but system still requires proper clean available on clicking the link above.


“Die echtheit Ihrer Windows-Kopie wurde automatisch überprüft und nicht bestätigt” snapshot:





1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i have this virus. the passcode doesn't work. it prompts for a 12 digit passkey. please help!