WinPatrol will alert you to Spyware, Adware, & nasty programs that may infiltrate your computer without your knowledge.

Scotty the Windows Watch Dog sniffs out malicious "mysteryware" and parasites that may assault your computer. WinPatrol puts you back in control of your computer so you'll know what programs are and should be running at all times. WinPatrol is a security tool that protect you from worms, trojan, cookies, adware, spyware.

WinPatrol's goal is to help you better understand what programs are running on your computer, and alert you to any new programs added without your permission. Scotty lets you confirm any new programs set up to run on your computer.

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.

Don't be surprised when you see programs not listed by typical Startup Program managers. WinPatrol has expanded the number of locations monitored to include many undocumented registry locations.

NOTE: While the free version is fully functional at detecting and removing spyware/adware we recommend WinPatrol PLUS for a complete WinPatrol experience. PLUS membership is a one time $29.95 purchase and helps to support future development.

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

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Reduced Memory Footprint:
· The monitor component of WinPatrol has been optimized and shrunk so WinPatrol.exe is now only 313 KB instead of its previous 336 KB size. You won't find a smaller Windows system monitor as powerful as WinPatrol.

Additional Support for Firefox 3 and Google Chrome:
· Since Firefox 3 changed from cookie.txt to SQLite database format Scotty hasn't been hungry for Firefox cookies. Support for Firefox 3 has been the single most requested features. Turns out I was able to include support for the SQLite format without increasing the size of WinPatrol.exe. While I was at it I also included support for Google Chrome which also uses SQLite to store their cookies. Note: Firefox cookie can not be viewed or removed while Firefox is running.

Conflict reduction with other security applications:
· Scotty has always worked and play well with others. WinPatrol.exe has been optimized to handle the results of any Windows hooks in it's own code space reducing any conflicts ...