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

guest · Feb 8, 2020

Lock My PC Used By Tech Support Scammers, Dev Offers Free Recovery
February 8, 2020
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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.

With Syskey no longer being available, tech support scammers have switched to another product called Lock My PC to lock victims out of Windows.
When installed Lock My PC will require a user to enter a password before they can gain access to Windows.

Unfortunately, in our tests, the software also runs in Safe Mode, which makes it difficult to disable without the password or bootable recovery tools.
These tools, though, can be difficult to use for those who are affected by this scam.
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Lock My PC dev offers free recovery keys
When FSPro Labs, the developers of Lock My PC, discovered that their free software was being abused, they no longer made the software publicly available for download.

"After receiving too many reports of Lock My PC misuse, we decided to make our user access control software unavailable for the public. However, the programs are still available for our existing customers on requests. New customers may request Lock My PC business edition only using their corporate email address," FSPro Labs stated on the product's download page.
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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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