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He might try the American Red Cross Safe & Well site, available through the Texas Hurricane Center webpage (link on right side).

According to the article, it was his mother.

If that old, and assuming they are still alive and well, I can only assume they relocated to some assisted living facility.

If your husband is that concerned, he should call the local sheriff's office. I am sure they can point him in the right direction to at least learn of their fate.  I would not expect the sheriff's office will divulge any private/personal information, but your husband should be able to find out if they survived the storm.

I visited winpatrol.com to see if there were any new program updates and, once again, there are no updates but there is an expired certificate. Exactly the same as last year. On top of this, I have approximately 5 unanswered emails.

This guy is not taking care of business like he should. What a waste of, once was, a great product.

I think what bothers me most is the total silence.

If development and support has come to an end, why not post a quick comment about that on the website?

From my understanding, while Bret carried the vast majority of the workload, it was not totally a 1-man show. It seems to me, if Bret is no longer able, for what ever reason, someone could post a "Going out of business" sign on the site.

I sincerely hope this is all by choice and not due to some health or other tragic issue. But even 1-man (or 1-woman) operations should have an emergency contingency plan - especially when customers and paying clients are involved.

I am still running WP+ on my main systems because it is of value to me to be notified when some new startup tries to implant itself on my systems. But I do worry, with this apparent extended period of no updates, that Scotty is just giving me a false sense of security.

I think I will stop buying lifetime licenses for anything.  It seems whenever I do,  the product dies a couple years later.   The only viable one left I have  is MBAM.

Former lifetime member of :
Cheeselovers International
Pearl Crescent page saver
(and likely others that I have long forgotten!)

LOL Yeah, I have a few too. I had one for the eXtreme PSU calculator but they made that free for everyone. Then my Splash ID password manager that used to sync up with my Palm PDA. But they pulled the lifetime license when they dropped Palm support for Android phones. I also had a lifetime license for WinZip way back when it was DOS based. But they pulled that when WinZip for Windows came out. I was happy to see Malwarebytes continued to honor theirs when they went from Malwarebytes Antimalware (MBAM 2.x) to Malwarebytes (3.x).

I don't remember how, but I got a free lifetime license many years ago for SUPERAntiSpyware that is still valid.

I'm starting to wonder if WP is safe to continue running without anyone taking care of the back end.

I can't think of a reason that it isn't OK to keep using WinPatrol.

I still have an extremely old version on our 4 Windows 7 computers. I changed something on my husband's desktop computer and it alerted me that a change had been made to some startup item so it is "monitoring".