PestPatrol safeguards your computer by detecting and removing spyware, Trojans, hacker's tools, spyware cookies, and an ever-growing list of viruses, worms, and malicious java scripts. PestPatrol will not block junk, or spam, e-mail, nor will the program prevent your e-mail from entering your computer. Although if an e-mail attachment contained a virus, trojan, spyware cookie, or malicious Java Script, you will be instantly alerted to their presence on your computer when you run a scan. back to top
PestPatrol runs on all 32-bit Windows platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. PestPatrol looks for many Unix-specific worms, trojans, and other problem code, and can scan a Unix drive that is configured with SAMBA. Under SAMBA, the drive looks just like a Win32 drive and would function as though it were an exposed network drive. PestPatrol also scans for many pests specific to DOS or Windows 3.x, and can scan such drives if networked. back to top
The evaluation version is unable to delete files or quarantine them. There are no other differences. back to top
Occasionally things don't go to plan. If you encounter difficulties during a download or during an installation, all is not lost. You can contact us at the help desk. Our specially trained staff are on hand to answer your queries and advise you how to deal with any difficulties you may encounter. back to top
As of Tuesday, July 23, 2002 , PestPatrol detects 57,355 "Pests" in 11,094 "Families". back to top
Anti-virus products focus on viruses; PestPatrol focuses on every other sort of computer pest, including ANSI bombs, answering machine hacks, carding, denial of service attack tools, disassemblers, virus droppers, hacking guides, hostile Java, icq, mail bombers, password crackers, phreaking, surreptitious remote control, remote monitoring, network scanning, sniffers, spoofers, spyware, surveillance, Trojans, Trojan creation tools, virus creation tools, virus writing tools, and word lists used by password crackers. As a result, PestPatrol detects more such pests than anti-virus products. back to top
From the Start button located on the bottom left hand corner of your screen, go to Programs, then to PestPatrol, highlight "Uninstall PestPatrol". The Un-install screen will guide you through the process, ending with the step, "PestPatrol needs to shut down to complete the un-install process." This step is necessary to remove all associated files that might have been in use during the un-install process. back to top
"Spyware" is "any software which employs a user's Internet connection in the background (the so-called "backchannel") without their knowledge or explicit permission. Silent background use of an Internet "backchannel" connection must be preceded by a complete and truthful disclosure of proposed backchannel usage, followed by the receipt of explicit, informed, consent for such use. Any software communicating across the Internet absent these elements is guilty of information theft and is properly and rightfully termed: Spyware." -- Steve Gibson back to top
PestPatrol safeguards your computer from trojans, hacker's tools, spyware cookies, and an ever-growing list of malicious java scripts. These will be found when you choose to scan your drives using PestPatrol. PestPatrol will not block junk, or spam, e-mail, nor will the program prevent your e-mail from entering your computer. Although if an e-mail attachment contained a trojan, spyware cookie, or malicious Java Script, you will be instantly alerted to their presence on your computer if you have PPMemcheck running. PPMemcheck is the memory scanner which is part of PestPatrol, it will alert you to a pest as soon as it loads into your computer memory. PestPatrol is designed to work alongside your anti virus product, not to replace it. back to top
PestPatrol has been tested in many environments and it is not known to conflict with any other existing software -- except Pests, of course! back to top
