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WinPatrol Help
Dealing with Repeating Alerts the Easy Way
You may notice or be experiencing a Startup Program entry which keeps coming back after you
have asked WinPatrol to remove it.
This type of infiltration can usually still be removed using WinPatrol but may
require some extra steps to sure the correct Startup entries are permanently removed.
These steps will allow your computer to continue running safely but you may want to use additional Anti-Spyware programs to remove any none threatening traces.
Our recommendations for other free software can be found at http://www.mysteryware.com
Why this is happening?
Frequently, unwanted mystery programs come in groups which are designed to protect and reactivate
each other. Even if you tell Scotty to remove and kill a Startup Program, another partner program will replace
the data removed by WinPatrol.
If WinPatrol detects the same program repeating itself,
Scotty will automatically mark this program as Disabled.
While "Disabled", WinPatrol will continue to remove the Startup Program but if other programs are
actively replacing it more action is recommended.
What can be done?
The most important step is to stop the programs which are currently active causing you the problems.
WinPatrol can help you!
- Close down or Exit all the applications that you know about running on your computer.
- Click the Active Tasks tab to check what
programs are still listed.
- You may see multiple suspicious programs.
Some may have what look to be randomly created filenames.
Frequently, malicious programs will not have a company name or copyright information.
- WinPatrol allows you to Kill multiple tasks with one action.
Hold down the CTRL key to select several tasks at once
and click on each suspicious task.
- Click on the Kill Task button.
Once the programs are no longer active you should be able to remove them from the
Startup Programs list. Once removed we recommend rebooting and use WinPatrol to verify no unwanted Startup Programs are still around.
"Delete File on Reboot"
If after trying to remove a suspicious or dangerous program you find it still will
not go away, right-click on the title of the program and select "Delete File on Reboot."
This action will not take place until the next time you re-boot.
The file will be deleted before Windows starts and any other programs that may attempt to prevent its deletion.
There is no way to recover the file once it is deleted, so use this feature only when you are absolutely sure you want to remove the file.
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