RE: Initial Machine login - Computer Forensics 101

["Worrell, Brian" <BWorrell () isdh IN gov>]

Michael,

Quick sidebar, I recall reading a post about this before on another
list.  If you are being paid to do this, you need to make sure its all
above board as in some states this can be consider illegal.  Do not
recall the exact issue, but part of the outcome was that you needed to
have very clear, signed, documentation on what you were asked to do.
Think the case the article was referring too was in California.

That said, I would make a copy of the drive, and not alter the original
in any way.  This helps keep the evidence chain.  


Brian
 

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Subject: Initial Machine login - Computer Forensics 101

Here is a Computer Forensics 101 question.
Suppose a distraught woman comes to me with her husband's laptop and
wants me to search it for information about a suspected marital
indescretion.
1. Assuming it is an XP/Vista machine, how can I log in as
administrator?
2. Is the second approach to make a bistream copy of the hard drive
using an external USB har drive enclosure and proceed that way?