Phrozen Windows File Monitor

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Phrozen Windows File Monitor

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Phrozen Windows File Monitor is designed to capture any kind of modification inside the file system of Microsoft Windows.
http://phrozenblog.com/?p=597

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So at first I didn't even........ then an eyebrow went up..........then I watched the video and immediately downloaded it, absolutely awesome find, this is great.


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Dwel wrote:absolutely awesome find, this is great.
Pity this app does not monitor the registry for changes, hope it's on the to-do list.

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Number of events this thing covers was impressive. It's more than just file activity: it's associations, attributes, adding/removing a drive, and network share/unshare. The program will also filter by extension (include only) and file path (exclude only). All that is a step above the other monitors I've tested.

Note that the record doesn't distinguish between file creation and file modification, but the text of the log does. For example: First creating, then editing it will look like this:

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file.txt	-	Create	C:\file.txt
file.txt	-	Update File	C:\file.txt
Saves settings to config.ini

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Old thread update: link to main site no longer functions:
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I realized today (despite my note about it being offline) that I'm still using this program many years later to easily observe system behavior. Does anyone else have a better program?

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I still use Process Monitor.

Not stealth, but fits my needs so far.

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#8 Post by webfork »

Andrew Lee wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:29 pm I still use Process Monitor.

Not stealth, but fits my needs so far.
Cool, thanks

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