Understanding Services Control

The Services Control feature catches dangerous program behaviors. It:

prevents malware from being installed to start automatically with your computer
prevents drivers from being loaded into your PC kernel by rootkit malware

This feature controls changes to the Services section of your computer's registry file, blocking attempts by untrusted programs to install or modify services or drivers. When such attempts occur, you are alerted and given the choice to allow or deny them.

You can enable or disable Services Control in the Program Control Custom dialog, as described in Setting general program control options .