Documentation ProcessGuard How to Use

ProcessGuard How to Use

By CagedTech in Documentation

SpyHunter 3.0 contains an advanced ProcessGuard feature, designed to give you complete control over which processes are authorized to run on your system, and allowing you to identify and stop malicious processes before they are even executed.

To activate the ProcessGuard, click on the ProcessGuard Tab on the left side of the SpyHunter3 window and then check the Activate ProcessGuard checkbox. If you ever desire to turn Process Guard off, just uncheck this checkbox.

The ProcessGuard tab displays a list of:

  1. Allowed items (that you have granted permission to run on your system) on the left side of the window.
  2. Blocked items (that you have specifically blocked from running) that are on the right side of the window.

You can edit these lists at any time through the ProcessGuard interface.

To bring up additional properties of a process that is in either list, simply click on the filename to select it. Windows information related to the associated file will be displayed. Please note that, as this data is set by the publisher of the item and not by SpyHunter, this information may have been falsified. We recommend that you use the "More Info" feature to confirm any information.

To use More Info to retrieve accurate, up-to-date information on a process, simply click on the process to select it and then click the More Info button on the bottom of the process Guard window.

Please note that you must be connected to the Internet for this feature to work, as it requires a connection to our servers.

Please also note that More Info functionality is only offered to full, paying users. Creating and editing the lists of blocked and allowed processes is extremely intuitive. When ProcessGuard is active, any process that attempts to launch will trigger an alert with a filename that is going to be executed.

If you do not recognize the filename (or did not deliberately launch the process), we recommend that you first click on the More Info button to get up-to-the-minute information on the process from the SpyHunter servers. If the filename comes back UNKNOWN, we highly recommend that either look at the Manufacture name or paste the filename on Google.com for reference. If the result is no match found or it indicates that the filename belongs to a Malware, we advise you to block the process.

If one of your applications do not work properly or stop working, there might be that you accidentally blocked the application. In this case, you can just go to the blocked list and remove the application from there.

To allow the process to execute, simply click the Yes button. To block the process, click No. Make sure that the Remember my answer checkbox is checked if you want SpyHunter3 to remember your choice and add it to Process Guard's allowed/blocked lists.

If you block a process, you may receive a Windows error message stating Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. This error message is no cause for alarm! It simply means that SpyHunter3 has successfully blocked Windows from executing the process.

Make sure that the "Remember my answer" checkbox is checked if you want SpyHunter3 to remember your choice and add it to Process Guard's allowed/blocked lists.

Editing Blocked and Allowed lists

As the editing features of blocked and allowed lists are identical in both the Process Guard and the Registry Guard, both will be explained here.

Adding Items

SpyHunter3 gives you the ability to manually add an item to the Allowed items or Blocked items list. To do so, please follow the instructions below:

  1. Click the Add button above the Allowed items list or the Blocked items list. An Open dialog will appear.
  2. Navigate through the dialog to select the executable file that you would like to add to the Allowed or Blocked items list.
  3. Click the Open button to add the file.

Removing Items

If you have accidentally added an item to either the Allowed items or the Blocked items list, it is extremely easy to remove it. Just click on the item in either list to highlight it, and click the appropriate Remove button above the list that the highlighted item is in. It is as simple as that!

Moving Items between Lists

SpyHunter3 also allows you to quickly move an item from the Allowed list to the Blocked list, or vice versa. To do so, just click the item that you want to move, in order to highlight it.

  1. To move an item from Allowed items to Blocked items, click the right arrow button between the two lists.
  2. To move an item from Blocked items to Allowed items, click the left arrow button.
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