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]]> benchmarks minor update OSForensics v1.0 Released! http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20111111 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20111111 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:00:00 GMT PassMark® Software announces the release of OSForensics 1.0. Several changes and bug fixes have been made.

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 major update BurnInTest 7.0 released http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?rssdate=20110915 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?rssdate=20110915 Thu, 15 Sep 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 Wed, 07 Sep 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 Thu, 25 Aug 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 Fri, 12 Aug 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 Fri, 29 Jul 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 Fri, 29 Jul 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 Wed, 13 Jul 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 Thu, 23 Jun 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=20110527 http://www.osforensics.com/?rssdate=20110527 Fri, 27 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 Fri, 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 Fri, 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 Fri, 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 Thu, 21 Apr 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 Fri, 15 Apr 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?rssdate=20110404 http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm?rssdate=20110404 Mon, 04 Apr 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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, 24 Feb 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 Thu, 17 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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!

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