A closer look at a tech support screen locker

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In this blog post, we are going to take a closer look at some of the code that the most predominant family of tech support screen lockers are currently using to frustrate their victims.

This, which is dubbed VinCE because of the Program folder it creates for itself, is compiled in Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), making it easier to read for those of us that are not that versed in reverse engineering.

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