
On our test PC the background WinPatrol process required only a little more than 3MB of RAM, and the main program only needed about 6MB. This isn't enough to stop a serious virus attack, but it will alert you to the behaviour of many spyware and adware programs, as well as regular software that just likes to install a lot of junk.Īnd this monitoring requires very little in the way of system resources. The program monitors your startup programs, ActiveX controls, IE addons, file associations, HOST file, Windows update and UAC settings, and more.


WinPatrol takes a snapshot of key system areas and then alerts you whenever a program tries to make significant changes.
