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This chapter provides the reader with an overview and introduction to several forensic tools that are available for free use. The first sections of the chapter provides a listing of special purpose tools that can be useful for interpreting certain artifacts in a neat manner; this includes prefetch data, shellbags and more. The chapter continues with an overview of the tools autopsy and Registry Explorer that can be seen as free alternatives to FTK and Registry Viewer that was presented in the previous chapter. The intent of providing this demonstration of tools is to introduce the reader to a toolset so that she can start working with forensic products in a structured way.

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    https://wiki.sleuthkit.org/index.php?title=Autopsy_3rd_Party_Modules.

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    https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec.

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Joakim Kävrestad

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Kävrestad, J. (2018). Open-Source or Freeware Tools. In: Fundamentals of Digital Forensics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96319-8_14

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