PassMark Software and Wrensoft - Latest News http://www.passmark.com/ Covering all the latest software releases and updates, news, articles and reports from PassMark Software and Wrensoft! Thursday, 25 Aug 2011 02:00:00 GMT Copyright 2008-2011, PassMark Software en-us BurnInTest 7.0 released http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm/?rssdate=20110915 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm/?rssdate=20110915 Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:00:00 GMT PassMark® Software announces the release of BurnInTest 7.0, a new version of the popular PC reliability and load testing software for Windows.

PassMark BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously stress tested for endurance, reliability and stability. BurnInTest 7.0 is a major upgrade with new tests including disk self tests and touch screen testing when used with PassMark MonitorTest. Existing test improvements are many and include testing up to 256 CPUs, a memory adjacency test, new physical disk test modes, increases to the number of network ports that can be tested, IPv6 testing and testing up to 25 USB ports when used with PassMark USB 2.0 Loopback plugs.

Temperature monitoring, graphing and reporting has been improved with more temperature sources available and user configurable error events on temperature thresholds now possible. System information improvements include detailed memory information, SSD reporting and USB 3.0 reporting. Test automation has been extended with most test preference settings now available as scripting options.

We invite you to browse the changes to BurnInTest so you can understand the benefits of testing your hardware with BurnInTest 7.0 at www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm

]]> burnintest major update OSForensics beta updated to v0.99h http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110907 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110907 Wednesday, 07 September 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. Registry password retrieval dialog has been added to the password recovery tab and support code has been added to get windows logins and password hashes from SAM hives. In Undelete Files, for FAT formatted disks, files in deleted directories are now also shown. For NTFS formatted disks, deleted files that are older than the directories they are in are now also shown. Added support for carving files from EXT2 partitioned drives. Added support for filtering file search results by attributes.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.99g http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110825 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110825 Thursday, 25 August 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. Beta expiry has been moved to 15th of November. Significantly increased speed of browser password recovery in certain circumstances. Added support for Firefox 6 in recent activity module. Fixed possible crashes in recent activity module. Fixed critical memory leak in thumbnal view. Change made to indexing process to allow searching for email addresses within the content of a document.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.99f http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110812 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110812 Friday, 12 August 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. Beta expiry has been moved to 15th of October. Several crashes and bugs have been fixed. The raw disk viewer can now be used on unpartitioned or corrupted drive images, a right click menu has been added to the navigation bar, and the internal viewer can now view office documents and pdf files.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.99d http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110729 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110729 Friday, 29 July 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. An Index search history functionality has been added; Index bulk search functionality added, internal viewer can now play audio/video files, Rainbow Table recovery now supports .RTC files, OSFMount updated, fixed critical bugs in both the index creation and search.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update Enterprise and Small Business Endpoint Protection Performance Reports (Phase 3) released http://www.passmark.com/benchmark-reports/index.htm?RSSDate=20110729 http://www.passmark.com/benchmark-reports/index.htm?RSSDate=20110729 Friday, 29 July 2011 10:00:00 GMT PassMark Software has released the latest edition of the Enterprise and Small Business Endpoint Protection reports.
You can find out more details at the Security Reports page!

]]> securityreports minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.99b http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110713 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110713 Wednesday, 13 July 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. There is now a file bookmarking functionality; OSF can now see which files have already been viewed for a particular case; OSF can now brute force passwords using random passwords and the user can specify the random pattern, can now get chrome and firefox passwords even if the browsers are still open, and some password dictionaries have been updated.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.98 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110623 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110623 Thursday, 23 June 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released including several changes. Beta expiry has been moved to the beginning of August, can now search index for foreign characters with unicode input in the search field, can now add emails found from searching an index to the case, 64-bit index search support also corrects a bug when searching very large indexes, can now add registry keys/values to signatures and export a list of differences.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.97 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110506 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110506 Friday, 6 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several bug fixes. This includes the addition of a drive imaging module so that drive images of live systems can be created, a mismatched files date filter, and automatic and manual input modes under the Rainbow Table generation module.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.96 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110506 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110506 Friday, 6 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several bug fixes. This includes fixed tabbing, a fixed crash in the file decryption module, fixed list of default drives in new case and edit case dialogs, fixed bug in indexing of text files containing foreign characters, and several changes to the Rainbow Tables generation and password recovery UI.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update Performance Test updated to v7.0.1022 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm/?rssdate=20110506 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm/?rssdate=20110506 Friday, 6 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update has been released with minor improvements to PerformanceTest. This includes minor imporvements in detection of newer Intel CPUs and minor clarification about score weightings in the help file.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download PerformanceTest here.

]]> performancetest minor update SysInfo SDK updated to v1.0.1012 http://www.passmark.com/products/system-information-sdk.htm/?rssdate=20110506 http://www.passmark.com/products/system-information-sdk.htm/?rssdate=20110506 Friday, 6 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT

SysInfo SDK has been updated to v1.0.1012. Changes include: corrected a crash on startup for a particular system, improved the detection of the number of CPU cores when the "CPUID limit" BIOS setting is enabled, optical disk information improved using IMAPI2 information.

You can purchase SysInfo DLL SDK "here"

]]> sysinfo minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.95 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110421 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110421 Thursday, 21 April 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several bug fixes and new features including improved IE password discovery, improvements for creating indexes, and an update for OSFMOunt.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.94 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110415 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110415 Friday, 15 April 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several bug fixes and new features including a new password recovery and file decryption module. This includes generation and use of Rainbow Tables, and decryption of PDF, DOC and XLS files using 40-bit encryption. A visual aid has been added to the side bar to indicate which modules are currently running tasks. Links in emails viewed internally now work and open an external browser. Chinese and Japanese text can now be indexed.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update BurnIn Test has been updated to v6.0 build 1029 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm Mon, 04 April 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for BurnIn Test has been released with several changes and bug fixes including; corrected a crash on startup for a particular system, corrected a crash in Preferences->Sound when a non existent fil name is manually entered, added an explicit 1.5 GB limit on the video memory that the 32-bit version, added a new video playback error for CPU usage exceeded for audio playback when certain sound effects are enabled, improved the detection of the number of CPU cores when the "CPUID limit" BIOS setting is enabled.

For more information on the improvements we've made to BurnIn Test, please see the "What's New" page. BurnIn Test can be download from here.

]]> burnintest minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.93 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110321 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110321 Mon, 21 March 2011 10:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several changes and bug fixes including; redesigned of the System Information module to have greater flexibility, fixed RTF viewer in built-in email viewer, updated packaged OSFMount to v1.5, fixed bug when adding files from very long paths to case, changed font in search lists to support unicode where available, and several changes to the Disk viewer, internal viewer and memViewer.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSFMount updated to v1.5.1000 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?rssdate=20110316 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?rssdate=20110316 Wed, 16 March 2011 11:18:00 GMT An update for OSFMount has been released with some minor changes.

An update for OSFMount has been released. Changes include; fixed an issue with virtual disks larger than 4GB, fixed an issue with memory not deallocating properly when dismounted, added support for GPT based disks, and fixed an issue with extended partitions. For more information see the "OSFMount" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSFMount release.

]]> osfmount minor update WirelessMon updated to v4.0 Build 1000 http://www.passmark.com/products/wirelessmonitor.htm/?rssdate=20110307 http://www.passmark.com/products/wirelessmonitor.htm/?rssdate=20110307 Mon, 07 March 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for WirelessMon has been released. Changes include; added USB support for Garmin GPS, import and export functions for MAC addresses, a right to left signal strength graph style on summary tab, a "dropouts" count in the summary view, added encryption types WP-40, WEP-104, TKIP, and AES where applicable, and many more.

For more information on the improvements we've made to WirelessMon, please see the "What's New" page. WirelessMon can be downloaded here.

]]> wireslessmon minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.91 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110225 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110225 Thu, 25 February 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with some minor changes.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.89 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110217 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110217 Fri, 17 February 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released which includes some new features including the addition of a raw disk viewer, as well as bug fixes. Among other minor changes, OSForensics can now; specify a default drive to perform actions on as part of a case, view alternate streams in the internal viewer, specify the maximum number of files to index in the status window, sort by number and size of streams in File Search, and terminate the deleted file search while running.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update Consumer Security Products Performance 2011 third edition report released http://www.passmark.com/benchmark-reports/index.htm?RSSDate=20110215 http://www.passmark.com/benchmark-reports/index.htm?RSSDate=20110215 Tue, 15 February 2011 02:00:00 GMT PassMark Software has released the latest edition of the Consumer Security Products/Antivirus Performance Report.
You can download the report, or find out more details at the Security Reports page!

]]> securityreports minor update PerformanceTest v7 updated to build 1021 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20110210 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20110210 Thu, 10 February 2011 02:00:00 GMT Today we released a patch update for PerformanceTest v7, which is now build 1021. This build improves support for Intel CPUs using the Sandy Bridge architecture, and fixes a bug which caused the random disk seek test to only use a portion of the available test space.
You can download the new release, or find out more details about what's new at the PerformanceTest page!

]]> performancetest minor update OSForensics beta updated to v0.88 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110204 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110204 Fri, 04 February 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released which includes some new features as well as bug fixes. Among other minor changes, OSForensics is now able to order images by color in the file search, can perform file carving in the deleted files window (which will find discarded files that do not have any associated file table entries) and now displays all associated file attachments in Case Reports.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can download the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of this OSForensics release.

]]> osforensics minor update OSFMount updated to v1.4.1004 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20110121 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20110121 Fri, 21 January 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for OSFMount was released today to version 1.4.1004. This release fixes a bug which caused blue screen crashes on some 64-but Windows versions on multi-processor computers, as well as some minor improvements and bug fixes.
Download the new version of OSFMount, or find more information about mounting local disk image files in Windows from the OSFMount page!

]]> osfmount minor update BurnInTest v6 updated to build 1028 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20110119 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20110119 Wed, 19 January 2011 02:00:00 GMT An update for BurnInTest v6 to build 1028 was released today. In this version, we've improved the system information for second generation Intel i3, i5 and i7 CPUs (Sandy Bridge).
You can download the new release, or find out more details about what's new at the BurnInTest page!

]]> burnintest minor update BurnInTest v6 updated to build 1027 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20110112 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20110112 Wed, 12 January 2011 02:00:00 GMT Today, we released an update for BurnInTest v6 to build 1027. Changes in this new version include updated graphics card names in the system information pane, and improved reporting for CPU speed measurements for overclocked Intel Core2 CPU models and VIA CPU model names. We also fixed a bug which caused a startup crash for a particular system.
You can download the new release, or find out more details about what's new at the BurnInTest page!

]]> burnintest minor update PerformanceTest v7 updated to build 1020 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20110105 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20110105 Wed, 05 January 2011 02:00:00 GMT PassMark Software has just released a patch update for PerformanceTest to build 1020. This release improves on CPU information gathering methods for VIA CPUs as well as improving on CPU speed detection for overclocked Core2 CPUs. We've also added detection for several Radeon graphics card types and fixed a bug which stopped the visualized physics test image mode from working as intended.
You can download the new release, or find out more details about what's new at the PerformanceTest page!

]]> performancetest minor update OSFMount updated to build 1002 http://osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101216 http://osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101216 Thu, 16 December 2010 02:00:00 GMT Today we released a minor update for OSFMount to build 1002 with two notable bug fixes. We've lowered the amount of physical memory usage for non-raw images, and the Master Boot Record (MBR) is now being correctly detected in all cases. We've also added a status window for image analysis prior to mounting, and optimized the loading of images in the AFF file format.

You can download the 32-bit or the 64-bit release, or see a full list of compatible drive formats and actions from the OSFMount product page.

]]> osforensics minor update OSForensics updates to version 0.86 http://www.osforensics.com/download.html?RSSDate=20101213 http://www.osforensics.com/download.html?RSSDate=20101213 Mon, 13 December 2010 02:00:00 GMT An update for OSForensics beta has been released with several bug fixes, improved usability and speed. The case management module has been redesigned to make it easier to switch between multiple cases and any file can now be added as an attachment to a case. Case creation date is now stored, and you may add information about your Organization and contact details to each case.

The indexing process has been significantly improved for unallocated sectors, as well as in the area of binary string extraction. Several issues in relation to indexing and searching have also been patched in this update.

For more information on the improvements we've made to OSForensics, please see the "What's New" page. Otherwise, you can upgrade to the 32-bit version or 64-bit version of OSForensics.

]]> osforensics minor update OSFMount updated to version 1.4.1000 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101208 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101208 Wed, 08 December 2010 02:00:00 GMT We released a new version of OSFMount today to version 1.4.1000. This release expands on the drive image formats which are compatible with OSFMount, which now has the ability to read to, write to, mount in RAM, convert (to image files), extend or format more formats than ever before. Some of the new drive image file types supported by OSFMount include Advanced Forensics Format Images (AFF), Advanced Forensics Format Images with meta data (AFM) and VMWare Image (VMDK). You can download the 32-bit or the 64-bit release, or see a full list of compatible drive formats and actions from the OSFMount product page.

]]> osfmount minor update ImageUSB now available! http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html?RSSDate=20101202 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html?RSSDate=20101202 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:00:00 GMT Today, PassMark Software released ImageUSB - a free, mass duplication tool for USB Flash Drives. ImageUSB is capable of creating exact bit-level copies of USB Flash Drives over multiple drives at the same time, and is able to preserve all unused and slack space (including the Master Boot Record) during the cloning process. This makes ImageUSB the ideal tool for performing mass duplications of all UFD images, including bootable UFDs.

ImageUSB can also be used to install OSFClone to a USB Drive for use with OSForensics. You can download ImageUSB for free from here, or read more at the ImageUSB product page!

]]> imageusb new release System Information SDK updated to Build 1007 http://www.passmark.com/products/system-information-sdk.htm?RSSDate=20101119 http://www.passmark.com/products/system-information-sdk.htm?RSSDate=20101119 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT An update for System Information SDK was released today, to Build 1007. SysInfo DLL SDK provides third party developers with the components needed to integrate the SysInfo DLL library into their applications. The SysInfo DLL library exports an interface for retrieving system information, including Motherboard, BIOS, CPU and more.

You can find out more about SysInfo SDK here.

]]> sysinfo sdk minor update OSFClone updated to Build 1002 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/create-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101118 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/create-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101118 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT PassMark Software released a minor update for OSFClone today to build 1002. This new release now supports the the open AFF file format (Advance Forensics Format) in both compressed and uncompressed format.

You can download or find out more information on OSFClone here ]]> osfclone minor update BurnInTest updated to Build 1026 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20101108 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?RSSDate=20101108 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT PassMark Software released a minor update for BurnInTest Standard and Professional version 6 today. This patch corrects a bug which stopped frames in the 3D test from changing after about 16.8 million frames, hence the same frame was rendered and displayed (appearing not to update). We also added temperature monitoring support for more hard disk drive types.

You can download the newest BurnInTest build from here or read more about what's new in this patch.

]]> burnintest minor update RAMMon v1 updated to Build 1002 http://www.passmark.com/products/rammon.htm?RSSDate=20101105 http://www.passmark.com/products/rammon.htm?RSSDate=20101005 Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT Today, we released a minor update for RAMMon to Build 1002. In this release, we've added support for XMP and EPP memory (RAM) devices.

You can download the latest patch for RAMMon from our website.

]]> rammon minor update OSFClone now available! http://www.osforensics.com/tools/create-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101103 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/create-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101103 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT OSFClone was released today, which is a free open-source utility that lets you create exact, forensic-quality disk images independent of the installed operating system. After creating or cloning a disk image, you can mount the image with PassMark OSFMount before conducting analysis with PassMark OSForensics. OSForensics can create disk clones of FAT, NTFS and USB flash drives.

You can download or find out more information on OSFClone here!

]]> osfclone new release DiskCheckup v3 updated to Build 1004 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20101102 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20101102 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:00:00 GMT An update has been released for DiskCheckup v3, to build 1004. The new patch includes some minor bug fixes and improvements.

You can download the latest patch for DiskCheckup from our website.

]]> diskcheckup minor update PerformanceTest v7 updated to Build 1019 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20101027 http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm?RSSDate=20101027 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:00:00 GMT We released an update for PerformanceTest v7 today, to build 1019. The new patch fixed a number of resource leaks that were causing PerformanceTest to become unstable after several hours of sustained usage and improves a 3D test error message to give more information about the error. We also added detection for Radeon 6850 and 6870 video cards.

For more details, please see the What's New page, or you can download the new release here.

]]> performancetest minor update OSFMount now available! http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101021 http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html?RSSDate=20101021 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:00:00 GMT OSFMount was released today, which is a free utility that lets you mount local dd image files in Windows for analysis in OSForensics. OSFMount supports the seamless drive mounting of several file formats (dd, iso, img and more) and the mounting of RAM disks.

You can download or find out more information on OSFMount here!

]]> osfmount new release OSForensics - Early community feedback Beta now available! http://www.osforensics.com/index.html?RSSDate=20101015 http://www.osforensics.com/index.html?RSSDate=20101015 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:00:00 GMT Today, we released an early beta version (v0.81) of OSForensics which is a new e-discovery tool which lets you extract forensic data from computers, quickly and easily. The full release of the software is still currently under development, but the beta can be downloaded here.

If you have any feedback on or suggestions for OSForensics, we'd love to hear from you!

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