Understanding services control

The services control feature catches dangerous program behaviors that other firewalls have typically ignored. It controls changes to the Windows Services section of your computer’s registry file, blocking attempts by untrusted programs to install or modify services or drivers. If such attempts occur, you are alerted and given the choice to allow or deny them.

This protection:

• prevents malware from being installed to start automatically when your computer starts up
• prevents drivers from being loaded into your PC kernel by rootkit malware

You can enable or disable services control in the Application Control Custom Settings, as described in Custom program control features. Services controls activates only when Application Control is set to High or Maximum.