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Try&Decide in Acronis True Image 2021

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Unless I am missing something in the PDF User Guide for Acronis True Image 2021, I cannot see any way to view the changes that Acronis is tracking when Try&Decide is turned on.  I realize that you can discard the changes, but what I really want to know is what a specific application is doing once it is launched.

I have a couple of utilities that I have downloaded from the Internet that have been flagged by Microsoft Defender as suspicious.  I believe that these utilities are safe, but I am not completely certain that is the true.  Ideally if I could see what Try&Decide is logging I might be able to determine if the application is doing anything suspicious.

I am not sure if the Try&Decide feature is really designed to do what I want, which is more of an application behavior logger when the application is launched.

If Try&Decide is not really designed to do this type of tracking does anyone have a suggestion on some software that is really good at providing this type of functionality?  Thanks.

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Todd, sorry but I do not believe that TnD can give you the level of detail that you are looking for here!

One suggestion here might be to try running the suspicious applications using Sandboxie which would allow you to at least review the sandbox contents to see where changes are being made etc.

Hi Steve,

Here is a little bit of irony.  When I downloaded Sandboxie, Microsoft Defender flagged it a low level threat.  The threat it found is PUA:Win32/InstallCore.  This is the second program that I have downloaded that was flagged by Microsoft Defender as having PUA:Win32/InstallCore as part of its executable.

In fact, this previous flag I just mentioned above by Microsoft Defender was on a utility I downloaded from the Internet and that flag is the reason why I wanted to try and find some software that could monitor an application's behavior enough for me to determine if the software is safe.

So who monitors Sandboxie?  Just kidding, I assume this software is safe, but I wanted to see if you were aware that Microsoft Defender was going to flag the software as a low level threat containing PUA:Win32/InstallCore?

Ok, so the plot gets weirder.  I think the link I used to download Sandboxie was not one to the real Sandboxie or it was one to a modified Sandboxie.  I went back to Sandboxie's website and clicked on their link to download the Sandboxie software.  When you do this you have to fill out a form to get a download link.  This time the executable that was downloaded did not cause Microsoft Defender to flag it as a problem.

Todd, glad you have got the official download for Sandboxie, I haven't seen any alerts from Defender on any downloads I've done recently, but I try to be very selective about where I go for downloads!  Sandboxie has been installed for several years and just updated when prompted.

Always best to err on the side of caution if alerts are raised!  I will upload anything flagged as suspicious to the VirusTotal scanning service to get a better feel for if the flag is correct or not?