What Is Suspicious Setting Protection
Windows has many places that a Scoundrel
can quietly change to let itself run or do other things.
This checks for a variety of these suspicious settings, including:
- Some Scoundrels will set themselves to run when you try to start
any regular program in Windows. They'll then run the program you wanted, so you won't notice
that anything has changed.
- A Scoundrel may place a file C:\Explorer.exe
which can trick Windows into running
that file instead of the main Explorer.exe (which does the Taskbar with the Start button,
the Desktop, and pretty much everything in Windows.)
- A Scoundrel can
change your Windows Update location.
Then if you try to use Windows Update to get patches for your computer, you
will go somewhere else instead of Microsoft's update website!
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