Windows Forensics and Incident Recovery

First Dream

Andy sat quietly at his desk. The room was dark, save for the blue glow emanating from his monitor. He sat there gazing intently at the report displayed on the screen. Or so it seemed. His mind was elsewhere, wandering through a greener meadow, wishing he were somewhere else, doing something else. He realized that he was extremely relaxed, and felt the familiar calmness that told him that he was drifting off into a dream.

The calm was shattered by the shrill ring of his phone, and he catapulted upright in his chair. It was like an alarm clock or a bucket of ice-cold water rousing him from a deep sleep. Shrugging off the shock, he answered the phone. It was Dave, one of the network engineers.

“Yeah, what can I do for you, Dave?” Andy ...