Lock My PC Used By Tech Support Scammers, Dev Offers Free Recovery

LASER_oneXM

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Tech Support scammers are using a free utility called Lock My PC to lock users out of their PCs unless they pay the requested "support" fees.

For years telephone scammers pretending to be from Microsoft, Google, and other companies have been convincing people to let them access their computer to fix a "detected" issue. Once the scammers gain access to the computer, though, they would use the Windows Syskey program to lock the user out of Windows with a password unless they paid for the "support" call.
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upnorth

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For users who fell victim to one of these scams and have had Lock My PC installed on their computer, FSPro is offering free recovery passwords that will allow users to unlock their PC. To get access to a recovery password, at the Lock My PC password prompt enter '999901111' and a numeric recover code will appear under the password field. Victims can input this code on the Lock My PC recovery page to receive a recovery password that can be entered into the password field to unlock the PC.

Users can then uninstall the Lock My PC program from their computer.
 

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