PestPatrol™

Developer: PestPatrol, Inc.



Version: 10.23.2003

Introduction:

PestPatrol™ is a powerful security and personal privacy tool that detects and eliminates destructive pests like spyware, adware, trojans and hacker tools. It complements your anti-virus and firewall software, extending your protection against non-viral malicious software that can evade your existing security and invade your personal privacy.

These pests often lurk silently on your computer until something – or someone – sets them off. When that happens, you could lose passwords, personal data, credit card numbers, and - if you telecommute and connect to your office via a VPN - open up a back door for the hacker into your entire company network.



PestPatrol defeats the threat by detecting and removing:

• Spyware and adware that “phones home” information about you, your computer, and your surfing habits
• Remote access trojans (RATs) that allow an attacker to remotely control your computer
• Keyloggers that can steal passwords and other confidential data
• Denial-of-service (DoS) attack agents that can crash or hang a program, or your entire system
• Probe tools that look for vulnerabilities on your system that a hacker can exploit

• CookiePatrol™ detects spyware cookies the moment they land on your computer, and quickly blasts them away.
• KeyPatrol™ detects both known and unknown keyloggers, using both behavioral and pattern-matching algorithms.
• Improved scan engine enables faster scans, improves dynamic update abilities, and substantially decreases memory usage.
• New heuristic cookie detection techniques detect new, "unknown" spyware cookies, improving detection results over the use of scan strings alone.

• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows Millennium
• Windows NT
• Windows XP

• Intel Pentium or higher processor
• 16 MB RAM
• 10 MB of available hard disk space