SecureAPlus is an application whitelisting tool which allows only approved programs to run on your computer. If you plug a USB drive into your system, for instance, and it tries to launch something, then you'll be alerted and the program won't run until you give your permission.
After a straightforward installation, SecureAPlus builds its whitelist of your installed applications. This can take a long time - perhaps an hour or more - as it has to crawl all over your hard drive looking for executables. And a feeble interface means you can't tell what the program is doing unless you go looking (click system tray icon > Application Whitelisting > Status). But be patient, it does finish eventually.
Once whitelisting was complete, we tried running our existing applications, and they all worked just fine. Which was great.
Download and launch a new program, though, and unless it was signed by a trusted certificate, we would always see an alert: "The file is not in the whitelist. Do you want to trust this file?" Click "Yes" and it runs, "No" and it doesn't, and for the most part it's as simple as that.
SecureAPlus also includes an antivirus component, boasting that it's "the first solution that combines both antivirus and application whitelisting capabilities all-in-one". It uses the not-very-good Clam AntiVirus as its engine, though, so you shouldn't be too impressed by this; you'll still need a more capable antivirus tool (although there's no harm in running ClamAV as well).
Please note, installing this "Freemium" version of SecureAPlus gets you a free licence for one year only. You can extend this via the SecureAPlus referral program, though. For every one friend you get to install the program, you'll get 6 extra months for free, and if you successfully invite 6 friends in a year then you'll get a free licence forever.
