WinPatrol Plus stands guard over your PC

November 07, 2013

A guard dog is only as valuable as the alarms he sounds. The latest version of WinPatrol, a handy security utility that serves as a virtual guard dog for your PC, drives this point home. WinPatrol 2013 still alerts you when changes are made to your PC, but does so less frequently...so when it does bark, you sit up and take notice. WinPatrol Plus offers fewer alerts, but lets you know when important changes are being made to your PC. WinPatrol is available in a free version, which offers a handful of ways to monitor just what's going on on your PC. You can see a list of startup programs, which you can choose to disable or delay. You also can see a list of recently used programs, hidden files, file types by associated program, active tasks and services, and much more. The latest version of WinPatrol looks the same as ever, a drab gray design weighed down by a lot of text. But it does feature an improved alert system: WinPatrol no longer notifies you as to every tiny change made on your PC. Instead, WinPatrol barks (and yes, it actually barks) only when your attention is needed. For example, past versions would notify you when a legitimate program was added to your Startup program list. The latest version will notify you when a higher level of activityâ€”typically signifying some sort of malicious intentâ€”is detected. WinPatrol also now has the ability to learn from your responses: when you tell the program that you approve of an application's actions, it won't alert you about that action again. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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