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What Is Suspicious Changes
Windows has many places that a Scoundrel can quietly change to let itself run or do other things.

One or more of these changes have been made!

  • 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 settings. Windows Automatic Update can be turned off so you aren't protected from any future security fixes. Windows Automatic Update can be changed so you get the updates off a different server than Microsoft's main server (which could cause you to get no updates too).
You should review the changes described on the Details of the previous window and decide to accept or reject the changes.