Do you have McAfee Site Advisor installed? This appears to be from that program.

When you installed the updates for Superantispyware did you run a scan? If not perhaps you should to satisfy yourself

If WinPatrol scares you remove it.

do you by any chance have mcafee site advisor on your pc?

winpatrol is an excellent program have you tried to read the info on how to use it and try to understand it?

I would not allow that mcafee application. if you did not ask for it then definitely block it.
WinPatrol

Winpatrol might be a great program but if it scares the lady as she suggests then it is useless to her and she needs to remove it or spend time trying to understand it.

Lynn has been here often enough seeking help so it would be fair to assume she has sufficient protection without something scary bothering her.

Many people get a little scared when using a program they are not familiar with which is why I suggested reading up on how it works to get a better understanding.
Just like a firewall will pop up warnings but once we learn what they are and what they mean we realize it is one more program protecting us.

I don't feel I said anything untoward and of course I realize she can certainly make any decision she chooses to.

by the way there were no replies showing when I posted my original reply apparently we were replying at the same time.

I don't feel I said anything untoward

RC as usual you gave sound advice. My point was not so much about the advice but rather Lynn's experience with WinPatrol. I fail to see any benefit in keeping a program that unsettles the user.

A few years ago I had a program that seemed determined to ruin my life on the computer with warning pop ups. As good as the program was touted to be I felt the constant irritation of the pop ups outweighed the benefits so I removed it.

Owbist and Ravencajun - thank you. I may leave WinPatrol on for now (since it was free) - and if time allows at some point, I'll read the links RC provided.

In the meantime, I do have McAfee Site Advisor. So if I recall, it is a Firefox addon? So when I opened Firefox and said ok to install updates to my add-ons, it seems likely that McAfee Site Advisor was updating. So should I allow it? I did not click allow or disallow yet?

And yes Owbist, you are right. I think I've been around here long enough to have good protection. I have Avast Anti-virus, Malwarebytes, Superantispyware and Spywareblaster. And I've even learned enough to update them regularly and run them. Just ran Superantispyware and found no infected files.

Thanks.
Lynn.

I would not allow site advisor to update in fact it is no longer on any of my machines, you can remove it from add remove programs. it once was a good tool, but it got very greedy and wanted to really take over and stopped letting people make changes to it,and started installing components with out letting people know just like what just happened to you with that application installer cleanup app, that upset a lot of people and many many people left it then which is when I left it. It is McAfee !
Now instead we suggest using WOT on all the browsers it does a better job and it is not intrusive into the system.
Safe Browsing tool WOT Web of Trust

I will see if Bill P the creator of winpatrol has a simple tutorial or if he knows of one and let you know. I know that Corrine has done some tutorials on it in the past.

Here is another link Corrine gave me that may help with understanding winpatrol a bit more.

WinPatrol Help

Thanks for the tutorial. I think WinPatrol is worth keeping. This week's experience with it has been quite illuminating. First, it alerted me to McAfee Site Advisor trying to install something additional - which I don't want. And now I know I don't want McAfee Site Advisor either.

Just today, WinPatrol caught IE trying to install a google toolbar (which I said No to - and it tried several more times. I rarely use IE, but today my gmail wasn't working on Firefox for a few hours, so I opened IE).

Now I also have a question because WinPatrol caught IE trying to install:
IE7Pro V 2.5.1

Should I install this verison of IE7Pro?

I do use WOT and love it. So bye-bye McAfee Site Advisor.
Lynn.

IE7Pro is an add-on to Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 that aims to enhance the feature set provided by the browser.

So if you don't use IE really no sense installing it.

Thanks, Zep. If it's not a security update, I don't see any reason to enhance IE's features. Usually I only go there for Windows Updates.

Thanks.
Lynn.

many people installed IE7pro when they moved from IE6, it gave many of the features we liked with IE6 back to IE7, that is probably why you have it as an add on. It has some very good features.