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Practical Windows Forensics
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Practical Windows Forensics

by Ayman Shaaban, Konstantin Sapronov
June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Super timeline – Plaso

The filesystem is not the only source of data that contains timestamps of events in the system. When computers work, even when users do not do anything, a lot of events occur in the system. For example, Windows XP creates a System Restore Point every 24 hours, runs disk defragmentation every three days so that sectors of deleted files will be rewritten. Windows 7 has a Volume Shadow Copy mechanism, which also creates backup files and so on. All these actions occur automatically without any user activity. So, even in idle mode, Windows has a lot of events. In the case that the system has active users, we would see many more events. The information about these events will reflect in different places: in the registry, event ...

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ISBN: 9781783554096