One of the very few programs I have gone on record as officially recommending is the excellent WinPatrol monitoring utility. So to keep you updated, earlier this week a new version was released which adds registry monitoring:
I frequently get recommendations from pros on new registry locations which should be monitored. In some cases, these locations are application specific or apply to particular versions of Windows. WinPatrol 18 users can add locations they feel are important and WinPatrol will protect them.
Registry monitoring is flexible. Instead of having a pop up message asking about a change WinPatrol can just lock down a value and prevent it from changing. In the list above, those registry values with an icon are set to be locked and protected from change. As online experts find new registry values being changed by malware, WinPatrol can protect you better than ever.
As you probably know, the registry is essentially the brains of Windows which stores configuration data for both the OS and for many installed programs. As such, it is a common target for malware. If you don’t know exactly what to protect, no worries:
The “Suggestions” button [in the WinPatrol interface] will offer tips and suggestions on registry values you may want to protect based on how you use your computer. We’ll also offer application specific update scripts that can be download and installed with a few clicks.
While the suggestions function will likely be a constant work in progress, this is a great new feature to an already stellar free application.
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WinPatrol is so worthwhile that I have paid for it, despite the free version being satisfactory as is. In fact, one should not stress that it is free (or less than a buck of a Friday) but rather that it is blooming good and Bill P deserves every penny for it. Regardless of how many times Scotty would bark.