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| Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations, Second Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Amelia Phillips, Bill Nelson, Frank Enfinger, Christopher Steuart
Publisher: Course Technology
Category: Book
List Price: $106.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 462748
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
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Pages: 672
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0619217065
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780619217068
ASIN: 0619217065
Publication Date: March 3, 2005
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This text offers a disciplined approach to implementing a comprehensive accident-response plan with a focus on being able to detect intruders, discover what damage they did and discover their identities.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Tools and Textbook...too many errors April 19, 2007
This book was used for an intermediate forensics course and it was a terrible combination. I don't know if the authors bothered to validate their procedures with the tools, but neither worked well. We spent almost as much time trying to get the tools to work as we did actually performing investigations. Not only that, but the answers to some of the problems were incorrect. Bad choice of textbook for a college course !
 It is introduction to Computer Forensics August 27, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a textbook for computer forensics. It should be introduction to computer forensics. The book discuss overview of procedures and expectations of a computer forensic investigator. The technical sections in the book uses software to find information. Unfortunately, this information is basic and review for computer nerds.
THIS IS AN UPDATE. I just finished using this book for my class. We went through all 14 chapters: the CD is missing files, and the documentation is not in-sync with the demo software. The school contacted Course and Course is still trying to figure it out (maybe version 3). I am not a legal expert so I don't know if the procedures are right, but they made sense. The book focus is the process of making the extracted information legal. All the software is either demo or limited version. Majority of the projects uses Drivespy which function uses DOS (Win 9x). Sorry, you are out-of-luck if you don't have Win 9x computer. They have limited version of Forsenics Toolkit that works on XP, but the book only uses on a few projects.
Wrong Book to use for College Course! April 2, 2006
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
College Professors Listen Up! This is not the book to use for teaching Computer Forensics and Investigation. I am a student in a graduate course for Computer Forensics. The fact that this book uses strictly commercial software for all the exercises is sad. Especially since there are many Open Source tools available that can be used to conduct Computer Forensics. The software included with this book requires that the buyer obtain a license from the vendor, before the software can be used. Then the license is only good for 120 days. This is not fair to the buyer especially for students, who usually have no intent of keeping the book past the end of the semester. It would be better to use a book for the class that the students would find worth keeping for the long term. Also, a book that uses Open Source tools for the examples/exercises, would provide much more value to the students. A much better book to use would be 'Incident Response and Computer Forensics, 2nd Ed' by Chri Prosise, Kevin Mandia and Matt Pepe. If this book does not suite you, then I am sure that you can find another book to use.
This book is better than the previous edition, but there are still problems with the information. As another student posted about a case project. The evidence proved the employee innocent. This is just the beginning of other problems that you will find with the book.
Buy at your own risk!
Only read it a little March 24, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a complete novice at computer forensics (CF). I am taking a technical college course in CF for which this was the required textbook as I write this. I wrote this review so Amazon would stop pestering me with emails asking me to write this review. I haven't finished the course or the book yet but in the absence of any other reviews maybe my experience will help others.
So far I am through chapter 5. The book seems pretty good except for a couple of minor issues. Many CF software such as Drivespy requires commands entered from the DOS command line. The way the DOS commands are printed in the book it can be hard to tell where spaces are required in a given command, with the result that sometimes we were unable to type the commands correctly, which meant that the commands would not execute. It took us some experimenting to figure out the correct command, since like many computer users, we are not that familiar with DOS anymore.
Also, there is a sample problem in chapter 4 I believe involving processing a disk to recover information supplied by the writers of the book about whether a fictitious employee was operating a business on company time. The information we recovered was supposed to confirm that the employee was doing so, but the information we actually recovered indicated that he was not, so we aren't sure what that was supposed to mean.
My course instructor was very enthusiastic about this book, but she is a novice at instructing CF courses as well. I hope that this helps anyone interested in the book and stops Amazon from sending me those emails. When I finish the course I will try to post a further review.
 Great book. February 18, 2006
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
The book explains in good detail about computer forensics and investigations. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to look into this field of study.
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