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Forensic Software Developer Offers Free Program to Police
A West Virginia software developer that specializes in instant
message monitoring and control software for home users,
businesses, and police agencies is providing special versions of
their products to law enforcement agencies for free.
One of the software products SPEAR Forensics, a division of
Zemerick Software, Inc. is offering free to law enforcement
agencies is Chat Watch SPEAR. The program is designed to aid
detectives who patrol chat rooms looking for online predators.
According to the company, this is the only software available
that aids investigators of crimes involving instant messaging by
logging instant message conversations.
By providing a central location to organize the investigative
details, actively log instant messages, create investigation
reports and manage online identities, Chat Watch SPEAR Edition
will be especially helpful to members of Internet Crimes Against
Children (ICAC) Task Forces.
The regular version of Chat Watch is parental control software
that allows parents to monitor and record their children's
instant messages. The company also produces the SaferSpace
software that lets parents block access to MySpace and other
social-networking websites on their computers.
Another free product is Forensic P2P. Forensic P2P lets officers
search popular peer-to-peer networks for illegal files. Forensic
P2P can be integrated with a database of known illegal files to
quickly highlight known illegal files in search results.
Forensic Web Screenshot is a utility that lets officers save a
screenshot of an entire webpage from top to bottom. With
Forensic Web Screenshot, officers can easily save an entire
MySpace or Facebook profile to a file as evidence in an
investigation.
SPEAR Forensics also provides resources for agencies that
provide internet safety seminars for parents. Officers can
download the Chat Watch software that allows parents to monitor
their children’s instant messaging, and the SaferSpace software
that lets parents block access to MySpace and other
social-networking websites on their computers.
Members of law enforcement agencies can register to download the
free software at www.spearforensics.com.
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