WinPatrol PLUS 25.0.2012.0 Final 1.07MB
WinPatrol uses a heuristic approach to detecting attacks and violations of your computing environment. Traditional security programs scan your hard drive searching for previously identified threats. WinPatrol takes snapshot of your critical system resources and alerts you to any changes that may occur without your knowledge. You'll be removing dangerous new programs while others download new reference files.
Here are some key features of "WinPatrol":
� Increase Your Speed & System Performance
� Detect & Neutralize Spyware. Detect & Neutralize ADware
� Detect & Neutralize Viral infections. Detect & Neutralize Unwanted IE Add-Ons
� Detect & Restore File Type Changes Automatically Filter Unwanted Cookies
� Avoid Start Page Hijacking. Detect HOSTS file changes
� Kill Multiple Tasks that replicate each other, in a single step
� Stop programs that repeatedly add themselves to your Startup List
� Delete and Remove the most Stubborn Infections
* Uninstall Detection ( NEW! )
The new WinPatrol v25 will track programs that have been installed on your system and will monitor the location Windows uses to store Uninstall information. This location includes the path to the Uninstall command which is often used by malware to remove a program silently. WinPatrol will let you know the names of any programs which are removed. This feature is available to PLUS only users and is optional. Legitimate alerts may occur during software updates or when you choose to remove software.
* Start Program Removed Detection ( NEW! )
All WinPatrol users can benefit from the often requested option of Start program removal. WinPatrol was the first program to let users know if a new auto startup programs had been added. Now WinPatrol will also let you know if another program has removed one of your Startup programs. One of the common behaviors of malware is to reduce the possibility of being detected by Anti-Virus or security software. It�s common for new malware to remove programs from your auto Startup list.
Delayed Startup Programs
One of our more popular features is the ability to delay the launch of a Startup programs. Our recent sale generated a lot of new WinPatrol users who helped isolate a few bugs in Delayed Start especially on 64 bit versions of Windows. These bugs have been fixed so programs aren�t lost and parameter are properly returned when moving a Delayed program back to its original status.
* Windows XP Kill Task
This bug only affected XP users and even reverting to our v18 code didn�t help resolve a flaw preventing WinPatrol from killing tasks. It turns out Microsoft changed the value of one of the parameter masks used in a function called OpenProcess. The kill task function broke because we updated to newer Microsoft tools in our efforts to better support Windows 7. Sorry to the XP folks that it took this long to find. I can't thank Larry from Microsoft enough for his assistance. This is an important feature because unlike Task Manager, WinPatrol allows you to select multiple programs to kill with one click.
* Company Name, Details and Correct Path
One of the first steps in detecting a suspicious programs is the lack of a company name in its resource. On Windows 64 bit machines not all of the details of programs were available due to a bug I found and reported to Microsoft. It turns out a common Windows function called ExpandEnvironmentStrings won�t always provide the correct path when represented by the environment variable %programfiles%. If you�re using Windows 64 bit you probably noticed there is a "C:\Program Files" path for 64 bit programs and older programs are stored in "C:\Program Files (x86)". A correct path to your program is required to obtain details like a company name. We�ve worked around this bug in Windows.
* Misc Fixes
Anyone who has noticed that Scotty's ability to run on startup was missing will be pleased. There was in fact bug that removed WinPatrol as a Startup program. It wasn't caused by other programs, just programmer stupidity.
Why You Need WinPatrol
If you�ve wondered why you need WinPatrol just read what Microsoft has discovered in their malware research. �In the fourth quarter of 2011 alone, Conficker was detected on 1.7 million systems worldwide�
This infection is still increasing even though it�s well known to all popular security programs and simple Windows security updates will prevent it from spreading. You need extra help and WinPatrol was designed to monitor locations ignored by traditional security software.
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