GrantPerms

GrantPerms is a lightweight and effective software solution that was built to help you deal with the effects of malware attacks, particularly files whose permissions have been modified and do not allow you to access them even if the infection has been removed.

Portability advantages

The utility can be used on the go, from a USB stick or other similar memory storage devices, as it does not need to go through an installation process in order to function.
Conseqently, GrantPerms will leave no additional entries in your system’s registry, as regular programs do, even when uninstalled.

Basic yet practical looks

In what concerns its appearance, the application is hardly impressive, its entire GUI consisting of a non-adjustable window, which comprises a textbox for you to input the path for the targeted files.
It also features two buttons, ‘List Permissions’ and ‘Unlock’, the former generating a TXT report to let you know what you are allowed to do with the affected file.

Display your files’ permissions and unlock them with a click

To get things started, you can manually type the file location for the item you suspect has been the target of a malware infection, or you can just as easily paste it from your clipboard.
You can then click on ‘List Permission’ and within moments, you will be able to review the ‘Perms’ report. If you notice certain actions are disabled, for instance ‘Read / Execute’, you can press the ‘Unlock’ button and GrantPerms will fix the issue.

A handy means of restoring access permissions to a file

All in all, GrantPerms presents itself as a practical and intuitive tool that can save you from situations where important files on your computer cannot be opened or run due to malware-modified access permissions.