Just finished scanning my machine with malwarebytes and it flagged up a file located in C:\Program Files\Steinberg\WaveLab Elements 8\Tools\Tracer.exe as being a trojan…
Strikes me as being a strange place for a trojan to plant itself so i’m wondering if anyone else has this file and it’s a false positive, obviously have quarantined it meantime.
Malwarebytes flagged it as ‘Trojan.Ransom.C’
So far WLE8 seems to be running fine without it, i checked the install log and it IS part of the install payload…
Hi PG and thanks for the quick reply… always worth checking these things! 
…Having run WLE8 pretty extensively yesterday (excellent release btw!!!) it seems to be functioning just fine without the ‘Tracer.exe’ file as i had removed it before your reply…
Being that it seems to work just fine without it, does anyone know what exactly the file is for? just out of interest like 
AFAIK, Tracer is used when a ‘safe’ controlled startup of the program is wanted, to see where things go wrong during this process. It creates a report for the startup sequence. So if you have no problems, tracer.exe won’t be needed.