Software Update: Sysinternals Suite 2016-08-29

Microsoft has released a new version of the Sysinternals Suite, with the date as the version number. This package is a collection of useful tools for managing systems and obtaining comprehensive information about the computer. In this way, all kinds of problems can be detected and solved.

The individual tools are being developed by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, initially for Sysinternals and since 2006 for Microsoft. Some examples are Process Explorer, Bginfo, contig and disk mon. In total it concerns a collection of 69 different tools. By the way, the latest versions of the individual programs can also be here are being found. Since the previous edition, the following parts of the Suite have been updated:

Sysmon v4.12
This release of Sysmon, an advanced background monitor that records process-related activity to the event log for use in intrusion detection and forensics, introduces more powerful filtering capabilities, now reports the status of CRL checking and fixes a bug where certain configuration files could cause the driver to blue screen.

Sign check v2.54
This update to Sigcheck, a command-line utility that reports detailed information about images, including their signatures and VirusTotal status, as well as certificate stores, fixes a bug that could result in it reporting signed files that have been modified as having a valid signature .

Autologon v3.1
Autologon, a utility that configures Windows to automatically log on a specified user account after booting, now validates the entered credentials before accepting them.

Process Monitor v3.31
This release of Process Monitor, an advanced real-time file system, registry, process, image and network monitoring tool, fixes a bugs that caused it to crash when processing some boot logs and when saving logged events to a backing file.