Paraben

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Paraben offers a wide variety of tools for analyzing disk drives and portable devices like cell phones and PDAs.

Features

File Systems Understood

• Major Windows formats
• RAW format

Email Examiner

Their tool for searching email ("Email Examiner") can pull apart these files:

• Outlook (PST)
• Outlook Express (DBX)
• AOL 6,7,8,9 (PFC)
• MBox
• Eudora
• Mozilla Mail
• Fox Mail
• Juno
• Calypso
• MSN Mail
• USENET newsgroups

Historical Reconstruction

Can it build timelines and search by creation date?

Searching Abilities

• With "Text Searcher". Offers complex queries and searching of slack space.
• Comes with an index building wizard.

Hash Databases

Can it create hashes of files and/or blocks? Can it compare these hash values to any databases? What sort of hash functions does it use?

Evidence Collection Features

• Offers a feature called "Case Agent Companion v1.0" for tracking what the case agent does.

History

License Notes

Commercial.

External Links

• Paraben website