MD5 have recently invested in research and development to enable us to deal with Hard Drive & System Malfunction problems. This enables us to deal with drives that may be clicking; that have PCB damage; Bad Sectors; Firmware problems & service information defects. All these problems would have previously stopped forensic software and hardware from reading these problematic drives. This increases our level of digital evidence forensic services to our clients.

MD5 has released the latest edition to our forensic software portfolio. Forensic Analyser follows the release of Virtual Forensic Computing (VFC) which has already proved to be a valuable investigative tool to forensic analysts throughout the world.

Forensic Analyser is ingenious and incomparable to any other forensic examination software. It greatly speeds up the investigation process by taking away the need for lengthy data explorations, whilst providing the investigator a detailed overview of the content held on the computer; whether related to a particular case or not.

Once the proprietary gathering and indexing process is completed the investigator can instantly request to theme all the content on the drive or alternatively choose to list all people, places or organisations. From this starting point the investigator can then drill down to locate the evidence of interest and select to view the resources in their entirety. Not only does this assist forensic investigators, it also enables case investigators to use the tool for intelligence gathering or gives litigation experts the ability to utilise the software as an intelligent e-discovery tool.

Click here to download a free 14 day evaluation version. Please contact Carl Tinker via email with any questions or feedback during your trial ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

A further two purchaseable modules will be released later in 2009 that will add to the functionality of Forensic Analyser, these will include:

1. A module will be released that will include Mobile Phone downloads; this will combine all Digital Evidence in one place. This will prevent an investigator/analyst duplicating work and enable them to quickly find intelligence/evidence and associations from this pool of digital evidence.

2. A module to include image and video analysis; included in the features will be the functionality to ignore known images/videos; sort by skin tone; grade indecent images; previously identified images from database already graded and sifted; facial recognition.