Solera Networks DS series Packet Capture Appliances fill the gap between the value of instant traffic analysis (high-performance sniffers) and the reliability of long term traffic storage enabling you to replicate the instantaneous traffic analysis at any given moment in past or present.
Live View is a Java-based graphical forensics tool that creates a VMware virtual machine out of a raw (dd-style) disk image or physical disk.
The test looked at several classes of forensic tools, including traditional computer forensics tools; network forensics analyzers; specialized tools for such things as live forensic capture, PDA forensics, etc.; and tools for performing forensic captures over networks, largely in an incident response environment.
Today I came across a new tool to investigate the index.dat files : Index.dat Analyzer 2.0 This remembers me of another good tool for Web Forensics : MANDIANT Web Historian which I’ve used in the past to track down security policy violations. It’s good to know that both tools are free.