WinPatrol 15.9.2008

BillP Studios - (Freeware)

WinPatrol is a must for computer for detecting unknown programs that installed without your knowledge and took control of your computer.

WinPatrol is a handful utility that detects in real time unknown programs from being installed without your knowledge and take control of your computer.

The software allows to identify programs in use and those whose presence is suspected. The approach is different from traditional software programs that simply scan the hard drive, the heuristic method is used to detect violations of the system and access to unauthorized resources.

Having 8 tabs, it offers access to the following sections of the system: the list of programs that launch at startup of Windows, Internet Explorer extensions (IE Helpers ) -often used by spyware to broadcast advertising, scheduled tasks, Windows services, active tasks - displaying all running application, including those that are hidden, cookies (Internet Explorer and Mozilla compatible and supported), file extensions and associations.

His method is heuristic and can detect violations of the system and access to unauthorized resources.

Title:: WinPatrol 15.9.2008
File Size:: 708.8 KB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 17 Sep 2008
Publisher:: BillP Studios
Homepage:: http://www.winpatrol.com
MD5 Checksum:: 926DB6224941B20DA47F8EDD80DA906A

* Explorer Integration of PLUS Info...
One of the main features of WinPatrol PLUS is the ability to look up information for strange filenames. We now have over 19,000 descriptions available in a form that mere humans can understand. Our new WinPatrol now adds the ability to research programs to any executable on your system directly from Windows Explorer.

* Quicker Access to PLUS Info
In previous versions of WinPatrol we shipped PLUS descriptions on some of the most popular file requests. As our database grew and things changed it became obvious that we would never be installing our entire database on local machines. Our new version removes the check for local PLUS data saving you from unnecessary access to your hard drive and speeds up access to our online database

* Bug Fix: Firefox 3 Cookies
At this time WinPatrol hasn't been updated to manage cookies in Firefox 3. Cookies in Firefox 3 use a database method called SQlite which is completely different then its old plain cookies.txt file. We've removed the option if Firefox 3 or greater is detected so there is no confusion.

* Bug Fix: AppInit_DLL
One rarely used startup location frequently used by malware is a registry key AppInit_DLL found at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows. This key is now also used by security programs as way to hide from users and malware. WinPatrol has always monitored this location successfully but recently the over use of this location helped us find a bug in the way we parsed this key. Users of Kaspersky Internet Security were the first to discover this problem because KIS 2009 actually stores four separate DLL's in this location.
In previous versions of WinPatrol Scotty would incorrectly report filenames when there were three files or more located in this key.