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What can I do with Sentinel?
Is Sentinel an Anti-Virus Program?
What are the three tools that come with Sentinel?
What steps should I take if I suspect a virus or trojan?

What can I do with Sentinel?
-Sentinel is designed to help the user pinpoint and terminate various viruses and trojans. Sentinel comes with three major tools to help make it easier for the everyday user to keep their system free of viruses.
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Sentinel is NOT an Anti-Virus Program-
-It is more like a supplement to your existing anti-virus programs. Basically, Anti-Virus programs will scan everything that is currently running, and that is downloaded. However, there are cases where anti-virus programs fail to 'see' a virus or trojan horse program (for example: many anti-virus programs will fail to see a virus or trojan due to out of date definition files; or may even fail to eliminate a virus or trojan completely).

-Sentinel reduces the risk of infection or even re-infection by monitoring your most important system files for changes. What Sentinel does is look for new files, or any slight change in system files (using a pre-compiled CRC32 algorithm written in pure ASM), executables, or other core component files in your system folders (you can specify other folders to scan) on startup or shutdown.
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The three tools:

-AppWatch: Shows you all running windows. From here, users will be able to close the desired application with the click of the mouse. For a detailed description of AppWatch, and its features, click HERE.

-RegWatch: Displays all applications that are loading at startup using the Registry. From here, users can view loaded applications, scan them for viruses, and even delete those Registry entries with extreme ease. If you are unfamiliar with what the Registry is, you should visit the RegWatch help page by clicking HERE.

-IntegrityChecker (Scan): This is Sentinel's most powerful tool. All first time Sentinel users should read through, and understand the way the Integrity Checker works by clicking HERE.
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What steps should I take if I suspect a Virus or Trojan?
-First, make sure that you are familiar with the three tools that Sentinel provides, and follow these general directions:

1) You should always start with a Full Scan in the Integrity Checker. Sentinel will notify you if any files have been changed or modified.
...If no files Fail, then it is possible that the malicious program isn't executing or infecting files in your system folder. Follow the next steps to ensure system integrity.

2) Open RegWatch, and scan every entry in the list by clicking on the 'Scan File for Viruses' button.
...If no viruses are found, then move on to step 3

3) Open AppWatch, and attempt to close any suspicious programs. Many viruses and trojan use 'technical' or 'important' sounding names for their applications. Sentinel will not always be successful in closing applications (it uses a passive closing method).
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