1) Files in the "Backup(AppCheck)" are protected from being modified/renamed/deleted. (They are deleted after 7 days: [X] Auto clean-up files in Ransomware Shelter) I'm not sure if there is a size-limit. 2) AppCheck is not using convential signature-based detection method's.
Right. According to its brochure, AppCheck's CARB Engine (Context - Awareness based Ransomeware Behavior Detection) provides exquisite detection of file alteration from ransomware, differing from conventional signature/behavior based engines. Hence this app is designed to target ransomware specifically.
The question to be determined is how AppCheck performs against the latest strains of ransomware employing their own internal encryption routines that do not rely on Windows API based ones.
@Ikko Yi I have observed some in-consequent behavior of AppCheck which maybe a bug. I have AppCheck on two PC's. When I do the same test (run AppTimer) on those two machines, AppCHeck copies the log file of AppTimer (a text file) which is updated (by AppTimer) 5 times in a row (after launching Chrome) to its backup directory on D. Repeating the same test on the other PC does not trigger a backup. PC with text file in backup folder (on D) has C and D where C and D are tow physical drives PC with no text file in backup (and no backup directory on D) has C and D where C and D are partitions on one physical drive So I removed AppCheck on second PC (and replaced it with Secure Folders)
Did someone notice AppCheck on this latest version 2.0.1.3 reads the hard drive on every cold boot or restart? And it takes some seconds to read or do what it has to do I guess depending on the size of the files included for Auto Backup.
I guess AppCheck compares all files/folders included in "Backup Source" with the "Auto Backup(AppCheck)" folder after each restart. If it can find new files it is copying them the "Auto Backup(AppCheck)"-folder. This checking of all files might have caused a delay.
Ikko should find another way to compare sources and backup store. I don't want AppCheck doing this every morning or restart at anytime. Overhead and wear to my HDD. Look, for now I got 5 GB only but imagine if I increase to 10 or 20 or 40.
Does it also happen with the Auto-Backup feature being turned off? If not, then we know for sure that the delay is caused by the Auto-Backup feature.
No it does not @mood , just checked a few moments ago. And yes now we know for sure. And now I wonder if this seek lasts according to the AutoBackup(AppCheck) folder size.
LOL mood 최신 업데이트 내역 (정품 사용자는 하루 지연 업데이트 됩니다.) 2.0.1.4 버전 (2017년 3월 8일 오후 5시 00분) 다국어(일본어) 리소스 수정 사용자 신뢰 파일 기능 개선
@boredog The changelog is not available in English, so you have to translate it with other services. Google Translate for example.
Its offered for purchase in USD now but the terms and boxes are still in Korean.... https://www.checkmal.com/page/shop/appcheck_pro/
I would never buy software from an outfit that can't add. One year purchase price is $20.96 x 2 = $41.92. But their two year purchase price is $41.93. Not only is there no discount but it costs you $.01 more .............
I wouldn't buy a software just to get a slightly better RPO compared with a backup solution to use it in a non critical and stable environment in terms of new files created that a normal home PC user represents
It doesn't make sense to me either. I take an hourly macrium incremental, so at any sign of trouble I just do a restore. Problem solved.
Exactly the same here, Peter...glad to see that I am not the only one whose is verging on the paranoid
I rely firstly on daily backups, I don't have anything sufficiently important enough concerning my internet activities to need hourly, perhaps if I was a Donald Trump type tycoon I would ...I use software as such as this mainly out of curiosity in as much I haven't found a AV or AM that has been of any real-time use for several years aside from expected warnings...Perhaps my internet usage is to tame and "unrisky" to provoke any use from these security softwares.
If a user wants an application for making backups, then a dedicated backup-solution is a better choice. Macrium Reflect, etc.
