Internet's Best kept secret: Winpatrol

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. Dale Carnegie

One of the best kept secrets on the internet is this small Windows security tool. I have been a huge fan of it for many years now.

The tool is extremely small and sits in your system tray, near the clock, watching and reporting when "stuff" happens to your computer.

For example, if your internet home page changes, Scotty the watch dog barks and advises you of the change AND allows you to block the change. Some misbehaving websites and malware will oftentimes do this, an early sign that your computer is under attack or maybe you are not where you should be. Interestingly it also records the date and time when this change has been approved. Useful when it comes time to start pointing fingers at other users of the computer who, perhaps, are not following the rules you have set down.

The tool does so much more. What it is capable of doing depends in part on which version you use: The very capable FREE version or the even more capable PAID version. The paid version can oftentimes be had for under $15 in US funds, a steal of a deal.

Among the shortlist of what it monitors and empowers you to do:

1. It reports on new programs being installed which run automatically with each reboot
2. It allows you to disable un-needed programs that start automatically with each restart
3. It allows you to "delay" a programs autostart so that your PC boots up faster.
4. It allows you to remove malicious internet helpers that do not help at all
5. etc.....

Check out more of it's features in this video.

Go ahead and give Scotty a try. It's free and it's easy.

I'm not the only one who likes this little gem.

Winpatrol has won many awards

Winpatrol has received a lot of Tech Media Coverage: