Infinadyne - CD and DVD Inspector Software

CD/DVD Inspector is a full function software product for intensive analysis and extraction of data from CD-R, CD-RW and DVD media. Tailored for professionals in data recovery, forensics, and law enforcement

CD/DVD Inspector reads all major CD and DVD filesystem formats including ISO-9660, Joliet, UDF, HFS and HFS+. When the disc being examined contains more than a single filesystem, all filesystems found are displayed. Multiple filesystems are present for hybrid Macintosh/PC discs as well as for discs that are produced by DirectCD and other packet-writing software. DVD Video discs include both the UDF and ISO-9660 filesystem as well.

Reports are available to describe the contents of a disc in several formats:

• By folder, with and without MD5 hash information
• By file name, with and without MD5 hash information
• An export format similar to the Hashkeeper hash set format. This can then be used to import hash information into other software
• Image detail report listing all images found on a disc in HTML format
• Image selection report with selected images in HTML format

Additionally, CD/DVD Inspector loads a Hashkeeper hash set and compares it to the contents of a disc. This enables the rapid marking of files as containing content to be examined further or excluding files which belong to a hash set of common files.

Now available - Robotic Loader Extension. This is the tool to automate your handling of the massive quantities of CD and DVD evidence that is being collected. Please refer to the FDA-100 product information page in the “CD & DVD Analyser” section of the site.

AccuBurn-R has been functionally enhanced to assist forensic professionals with CD and DVD evidence.  Now, AccuBurn-R for CD/DVD Inspector will produce exact copies of discs that have been imaged using CD/DVD Inspector. 

All types and formats of discs are supported, including VCD, Karaoke, DVD Video (unprotected) and user-written drag-and-drop discs.

Note that this is not the same product as the consumer version of AccuBurn-R.  The consumer version of AccuBurn-R does not have the ability to write discs from CD/DVD Inspector image files.

iCatch is an image comparison tool which is unlike anything you have seen before.  It is faster, more capable and designed specifically for the forensic environment.

What does iCatch do?  It compares images against information in a database to locate similar images.  The result is for the first time you have in your hands the potential to locate significant images on a subject hard drive without spending hours examining thumbnail pictures, trying to separate the "wheat" from the "chaff".  iCatch has the capability to do a great deal of this separation for you, automatically and without human guidance.  The results of the comparison are displayed in a ranked list with the most similar images at the top.  This list can be very large - we have run tests with over 100,000 images in a single run against a database of more than 500,000 images.

iCatch uses unique techniques to search the database such that it is possible to have extremely large databases and still perform very quickly.  Other image comparison software begins to degrade when the number of images being compared against increases.

How would you use this?  Assuming you have a collection of pictures of fur coats and you trying to establish if a hard drive contains pictures of similar coats involved in illegal activities.  If there are a few hundred images on the subject hard drive, this is a reasonable task for a person.  When there are 30,000 digital photographs on the hard drive in no apparent organisation this becomes a significant task.  With iCatch is takes about 2 minutes to set up and can then run unattended until it finishes.  With appropriate hardware, iCatch can process 40,000 images per hour or more.

There are other types of image-related cases that this tool can be even more valuable for.

iCatch supports .ART, .BMP, .GIF, .JPEG, PNG and .TIFF as well as raw camera files from over 125 different digital cameras.  iCatch automatically processes images that are in ZIP archives.

iCatch includes the ability to export image information (but not the images themselves) from its database.  This can then uploaded to a Shared Database Server and updates to your database downloaded.  The advantage of this is a mechanism for sharing image comparison data between organizations without the need for sharing the actual images themselves.  iCatch maintains full tracking information in the database when additional information about an image is required.

There are two separate products in the iCatch family:

• Private iCatch
  This is designed for use by a single person on a single computer, possibly a notebook.  Performance will not be optimal in this configuration, but it requires the least resources.
  There is a minimum requirement of a 2 Ghz clock speed and 1024MB of RAM.  A dual-processor machine will help as well.
• Team iCatch
  Best performance.  Requires the use of a separate database server.  Designed for multiple users sharing the same database.  Eliminates all synchronisation issues between different workstations.