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Summary: This book is full of critical errors and omissions AVOID this book
Comment: I bought this book (3rd edition) at a modest price from a really great Amazon vendor, Jennifer's Attic. However, it is by far the worst textbook that I have ever used in my life. Simply put, it is replete with errors, omissions and useless repetition. I'd bet a dozen glazed donuts that the four authors who compiled this book have not recently gone through the book's one hundred plus activities and projects to check for errors and omissions. It's a required text for a graduate Computer Forensics course at a state university where I'm pursuing a computer science certificate to add to my 4 year Industrial Technology degree. If they care here's some recommendations to the authors for the next revision; 1. Cut out all the useless repetition - sure you can repeat things but gee... 2. Don't go into such depth on so many different complex software tools, 3. Verify that your activities and projects actually work - validate each one of them to correct the numerous errors and resolve the many omissions.
Summary for anyone interested in Computer Forensics; if you have to buy this book as a required textbook - don't take the course unless its mandatory and you have a great deal of extra time to waste. To everyone else - who's simply looking for a book - run for your lives. There must be several other computer forensics books that are better than this one.
P.S. I have no affiliation with any textbook authors or publisher and can't say what's a good book on this subject - just that this one's bad.
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Summary: Really helpfull "Guide"
Comment: The book is really usefull even if Computer Forensics is a new thing to me. It has a step by step guide to do Forensics from getting the evidence, preserving the evidence, until showing it in the court. The book even have the picture of how the room of investigator have to be. 2 program are included in the disc. One of the program is a software that is used widely. The other software is really helpful too understand what we have to do to gain information from the evidence.
Overall, this is a nice and perfect book for newbie in Computer Forensics field (It nice for advance people too) with 2 software that can be use daily.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too many problems
Comment: I found way too many problems with this text. I perform computer forensics investigations for a living, and would not recommend this book. There is too much focus on the DriveSpy program, and much of the information is repeated from chapter to chapter. This is an example of the reviewers not actually taking a look at the book. Your best bet is to purchase the book by Warren Kruse.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Just ok...
Comment: As a new examiner, I found this book somewhat useful, but I thought the book was edited horribly. It looks to me as though the publisher hired an English major to edit a Computer Forensics book... too bad... If the authors read these reviews...
switch editors... maybe even publishers if it's possible...
switch to more mainstream tools for your examples...
re-edit before releasing a second edition
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Summary: Do not buy this book used! You won't be able to use the CD
Comment: This book represents the core of what is wrong with corporate America today. This book is packaged with a CD that has software on it used throughout the book. What they don't tell you anywhere is that you must register the software using a unique and one time only coupon in the cd pouch. Furthermore the software then expires in 120 days. To not mention this limitation that basically makes the book useless for resale is very deceitful on the part of the publisher and the company that supplied the software. Never have I seen such B.S. before as this when it comes for games that publishers play!!! THIS INFORMATION SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN BIG BOLD LETTERS -- YOU CANNOT RESELL THIS BOOK DUE TO THE ONE-TIME USE OF THE ENCLOSED CD SOFTWARE --
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