What is Application Control?

Application Control

Many applications are often launched in the background without your knowledge, and some of them could very well be malicious. If you want to keep a close eye on them, you can try relying on Application Control.

Key Features:

• Small and portable program


• Notifies you whenever an unknown process is launched


• Option to allow or block processes


• Displays notifications for unknown programs


• Allows specification for future process permissions


• Calculates Sha-256 hash for verification

Additional Information:

The utility calculates the Sha-256 hash of every launched application and then compares it to the entries stored in the allowed.pc and blocked.pc files. The notification is only displayed if no matching entry is found.

However, it is worth noting that the software does not stop blocked programs from being launched, but merely shuts them down after one or two seconds.

Application Control is certainly not a complex program, as there is nothing to configure aside from the allowed and blocked lists; this can be done by opening them in a standard text editor.

Final Thoughts:

Overall, Application Control is a straightforward tool that can help you keep a close eye on all program launches in order to keep malicious software at bay. It can be useful in some scenarios, but you have to remember it still allows blocked applications to be run, if only for one or two seconds.

How Download Works

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