I have the $1 special winpatrol. I did install the new version on win8 yesterday! I got it before I even knew it was a new version. I don't know for sure but maybe winpatrol caused a upgrade intel graphics driver install problem. Leading to my first ever win8 light-blue screen stop message. Then a couple more too. I installed the latest i-core intel graphics driver update. Its not a light install, large amount of fairly important files .... Intel installer asked the question to restart now.. I patiently waited for hard drive light to quit blinking.. then maybe a few moment more to watch cpu a chance to step down to 0 load and give the install a chance to be sure to finish its work before rebooting.... WinPatrol popped the do you want to allow... after I had finally pushed the restart now button. Then again 2 minutes after it did restart, popped the do you want to allow again. Then again several minutes later.. all for the newest intel graphics adapter update. Seemed to me what was trying to install.. it wasn't interested in pausing so it didn't install right. It may have been parts of the new update that caused the lite-blue screen,, I don't know. I'm afraid to try again until I get few restarts under the hood.. Microsoft instantly sent me a driver when it saw the win8 boot on vga... then later updated it to the version they have from sept. But this allow yes/no popup coming after pushing the reboot button for an install .. has caused me trouble in the past. Somehow I need to remember to turn off winpatrol during installs. That popup is most important for when the bad guy tries something - so I certainly don't want to disable it .. just not healthy on regular wanted installs. The blue screens were kernel trying to write to read-only memory. This post was edited by mikie on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 18:46

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Thanks for link and information Corrine!

you are fine that is just winpatrol doing it's duty and letting you know that something is wanting to make a change to your pc, it appears to be the Adobe updater so that should be ok. see that is how winpatrol helps to protect you, had that been a drive by infection trying to install and change your pc you would have been alerted to it before it got it's hooks into you.