WinHex 15.1

Publisher's Description:

WinHex is a universal hexadecimal editor, particularly helpful in the realm of computer forensics, data recovery, low-level data processing, and IT security. An advanced tool for everyday and emergency use: inspect and edit all kinds of files, recover deleted files or lost data from hard drives with corrupt file systems or from digital camera cards. Features include template editing, drive cloning and imaging, encryption. It allows to concatenate, split, unify, analyze, convert, and compare files. Flexible search and replace functions are included, also a data interpreter and a sophisticated undo and backup mechanism. The disk editor supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, CDFS, UDF, Ext2, Ext3, and Reiser volumes as well as physical disks. The RAM editor can prove particularly useful for debugging purposes.

Latest Changes:

• Ability to detect simple attempts at masking any files of any type as executable files. Such files will not be confirmed as executable files any more. Forensic license only
• Allows to better focus on unusual executable files by assigning them to report tables when they contain unknown segments or an unexpected tail. Forensic license only
• Can better distinguish between various .exe file types including legacy formats, DLLs, fonts, VXDs, and other drivers (see Type column after file type verification). Forensic license only
• Special support for executable files when running the file header signature search. The file size and the precise file type will be detected. The exact file size helps to exclude known irrelevant files with the help of hash databases
• Size detection for very large zip archives during file header signature search. Size detection for 7zip file newly introduced
• It is now possible to automatically associate the parent file and child objects of a selected file with a report table as well
• Files that are child objects of a file (i.e. whose parent is not a directory) are now specially marked in the directory browser with 3 light blue dots in the upper left corner of the icon
• It is now much more convenient to supply lengthy filename lists for use as a filename filter. Multiple filenames or filename masks are no longer concatenated with semicolons, but entered (or pasted from the clipboard!) one per line
• When extracting thumbnails from JPEGs, they are now listed as child objects of the respective JPEG file. Such thumbnails and other generically named embedded pictures are now considered virtual files. Forensic license only
• Attached external files will now always be added as child objects of the selected object, even if you add a single file only, unless you hold the Shift key. It is now also possible to attach external files to a directory. Forensic license only
• Ability to add a selected block as a virtual file (Edit menu) now in File mode, too. In that case it will be added as a child object of the original file. Forensic license only
• Support for viewing the NTFS system file $UsnJrnl, another unique feature. Forensic license only
• Examination of $LogFile as part of thorough file system data structure search on NTFS volumes even more complete now. Forensic license only
• The Interpretation of $LogFile for View command/Preview mode now more complete. It also now shows you the date range coverered (see bottom of Preview/View), so that you can easily determine whether relevant dates are covered by $LogFile at all
• Ability to deal with FAT32 volumes whose main boot sector is corrupt if the backup boot sector is intact. Ability to automatically find lost FAT32 partitions when scanning for lost partitions even if the main boot sector is corrupt

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	agnostic7	Sep 6, 2008
Version:	15.1
I don't even know how a customer's nationality has anything to do with a software review but maybe you should try selling your trashware through a nonEnglish-speaking website. That people want cheaper software is a given. Anyone wants cheap products. The price for this buggy software is hefty and has lead to its doom. Plus with opensource everywhere the end of many such projects is inevitable. Addressing your disdain for the US: good luck selling your products in other countries. Oh my bad, nations in the eastern hemisphere lead the world is software piracy so there goes your argument. Moral: dont bite the hand that feeds you( dont badmouth honest customers ). Oh, my bad again, you already have. Hope you have a day job. OSS is the way to go.
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Reviewer:	Undesired Username	Jul 12, 2008
Version:	15.0 SR-2
"I can't afford it; therefore, it sucks." Suddenly I realize why the US is locked into an awful two-party system. WinHex is very useful but it's a pain to use for data recovery. It's just nowhere near as convenient as utilities like Recuva. (Whether it works better or worse I cannot say.) And I despise selecting a menu item, only to be told that I'm not in the elite crowd who purchased a Specialist license (or higher). If it's not a function available to me, HIDE IT. Or am I still running a demo version, even after I've paid?
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Reviewer:	Cooledit	Jul 4, 2008
Version:	15.0
i quite like this you have good control over hidden entries made to the hd sectors, that will not go away after i delete the partition, make a new partition and then do a full format of the drive entries made by 3dsmax and photoshop (in sector 32)
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Reviewer:	geronimo13	Jun 22, 2008
Version:	15.0
This crapware is overhyped. Stay away from it and save your money.
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Reviewer:	gehtnix	Apr 18, 2008
Version:	14.9
"Hi, please lower the price. it is too much for many of us." errr...you got any idea what it means to code that piece of software? if you need a free hexeditor choose one of the many free tools of that kind. for all the other features pay for a license, it is one of the tools that are worth their price. what do you expect from the author? selling it for 19.95 § ? BTW: it's about 32.- Euri at the moment :-p
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