Norton Remove and Reinstall Tool

What's new in this version:

Auto Triage:
- Added option to enable running auto triage automatically on startup, which can be enabled in the install to usb dialog and use settings last set
- Added splash screen and progress bar when running auto triage as a standalone option

Analyze Shadow Copy:
- Added ability to find shadow copies from analyze dialog without adding to case first

Boot VM:
- Will now display a proper error message when booting from VirtualBox failed (eg. when Intel VT-x/AMD-V is not enabled)
- Added check for whether VirtualBox extension pack is installed if USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 controller is selected
- Added check and display error for partition-only images without a supported OS before mounting as physical disk
- Added support for password bypass for Win 10/Server 2016 Builds 17763 and 19041 (via PEPassPass v1.2.3)

Case Manager:
- Support for adding recovered partitions to case
- Added ability to save and load custom templates for evidence categories
- Added ability to rename case devices after they have been added
- Add Device, changed the default display name to include the date the shadow copy was taken
- Added time zone names to time zone drop down and case report
- Report Generation, separated the HTML and PDF report options into different templates, no longer need to generate a HTML report to get a PDF copy
- Report Generation, added the details of OSFOrensics digital signature to generated reports
- Report Generation, updated "Link to case files" and "Copy files to report location" options to "Create Redacted Report" and "Create Full Length Report" to be more descriptive
- Report Generation, added ability to toggle the inclusion of signature certificate verification information in report generation dialog
- Report Generation, Added "Software Verification" link in report sidebar
- Report Generation, Added certificate verification information to non HTML reports

Clipboard Viewer / ThumbCache Viewer:
- Will now draw checkerboard background for improved display of transparent images
- Improved drawing of images to reduce flickering

Deleted Files:
- File carving, optimization. Improved accuracy for JPG files and overall performance. Compared to final V9 release, current file carving code is over 6x faster (benchmarked with an Mac E01 disk image with default carving config)
- File carving, optimization, updated extensions with header signature ????ftyp to x00x00x00?ftyp instead. Changed empty buffer detection to faster implementation to detect empty or repeating blocks read from disk. Scanning empty sectors is now 6 times faster
- File carving, optimization, improved efficiency of pattern matching code. This change roughly doubles the speed of file carving
- File carving, optimization, improved the responsiveness for OSForensics when carving is running
- File carving, optimization, increased the number of carving threads to 75% of available logical processors, up to a max of 32
- For FAT and NTFS files systems, added option to carve only Allocated sectors
- Updated to allow selecting of carving of MFT Only, MFT and Carving, or Carving Only
- MFT and Carving now enabled by default
- Added minimum size requirement for carved JPGs (126 bytes), GIFs (43 Bytes), PNGs (68 bytes)
- Changed name Plist to Binary Plist and improved detection to limit false positives
- File carving, fixed possible crash when carving MP3 files
- File carving, improved MP3/JPG detection to cut down on the number of false positive results returned
- Added secondary sorting on second column (via dropdown and/or control click on details tab)
- Disabled sorting while deleted file scan is in progress
- Lowered priority level of carving threads to improve response from computer when carving is in progress
- Thumbnail Tab, added a quality level indicator to the thumbnails preview
- Added support for carving MFT file records on non-NTFS quick formatted volumes
- Added support for recovering files from carved MFT records. This enables recovery of files from a quick-formatted volume
- Added new scan method to config window, changed dropdown box to checkboxes
- Prepend "Carved MFT" to 'Source String' of files recovered from carved MFT records to differentiate from normal deleted files
- Added check for large buffer sizes before allocating memory when detecting faces
- Background LED indicator fixed, indicator would incorrectly reset after "Saving Delete File to Disk" while scan is running
- File carving, improved carving of HTML files
- File carving, reduced false positives for FLV files
- File carving, changed the naming of file to be more informative, new format "Carved .JPG file found at 310GB - byte offset 0x482D709C00.jpg"
- File carving, better handling of .eml files (will verify that both "From:" and "Date:" field are present
- File carving, reduced repeated carving for file signatures with the same headers (e.g. TIFF family, ZIP family)
- File carving, ensure recovered carved file will not exceed the max file size specified by extension (or 100 MB, whichever is less)
- Opening internal viewer for Plist Files from within the deleted files module should now work
- NTFS, fixed potential memory issue when restoring deleted files
- NTFS, added more debug verbosity when restoring deleted files to disk

Device Manager:
- Scan up to a maximum number of sectors when looking for recovered partitions. This prevents unbounded scanning of disks with large amount of unpartitioned space

Disk Image and Filesystem Support:
- HFS+, preliminary support for compressed files
- HFS+, fixed bug in decompressing zlib-compressed file data
- HFS+, support for reading lzvn-compressed file data stored in resource fork
- APFS, fixed bug causing buffer overflow when reading extended attributes (eg. compressed files)
- APFS, fixed reading compressed file data for files with hard links
- APFS, fixed bug in decompressing zlib-compressed file data
- NTFS, fixed bug in incorrect file being opened due to hash collision

E-mail Viewer:
- Message body containing inline content (eg. base64-encoded jpgs) now displayed as attachments
- Thumbnail preview for supported image attachments on mouse over

ESEDB Viewer:
- Viewer now displays when binary data has been found
- Search now looks for ASCII strings present in binary data fields

Event Log Viewer:
- Added "Device Connected/Disconnected" option to the filter preset list

File Name Search:
- Added Hash Set column which identifies which hash set the file was located in
- Fixed $FILE_NAME dates not being displayed for entire disk images added to case
- Added a reset button to config dialog which sets all changes made by user back to their defaults
- Made several popup dialogs to close when 'esc' is pressed
- Now using ffmpeg library instead of exiftool for counting video tracks for better performance

Forensic and Cloud Imaging:
- Rebuild RAID Disk, added support for detecting and rebuilding Linux mdadm RAID using superblock v1.X
- Forensics Copy, added ability to export forensic image as zip file

Internal Viewer:
- Perform initialization/shutdown of Media Foundation once rather than for every internal viewer instance
- Fixed issue that prevented deleted files opened from File System Browser from showing in the File Viewer
- Fixed incorrect thumbnail being draw for current item, after the list is updated
- Migrated library for media playback from Windows Media Foundation to ffmpeg
- Added support for playing media from memory buffer sources (eg. deleted files)
- Will now display a specific error message when attempting to open media file with corrupted attributes (duration, video pixel format, etc)
- Fixed flickering from redrawing thumbnails from deleted search result
- Automatically rotate videos if rotation metadata available
- Added a check to only redraw thumbnails if the items changed
- Metadata, display an error message if exiftool executable was not found
- Fixed multithreading bug causing media playback issues when opening multiple instances of the same file
- Fixed video paint issues when resizing window
- Fixed first video frame occasionally being displayed immediately after loading preview thumbnail images
- File viewer support, added opening deleted files (image, video/audio, android backup, compressed archive, office files)
- Added right-click menu support for deleted files

Install to USB:
- Fixed bug, files required by the web browser module were not being copied

Localisation:
- Added localisation support for Korean, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Spanish, German and French

Mismatch File Search:
- Separated default and user-created filters, removed "built-in" text

OSForensics Digital Signature Verification:
- Added button to start screen (in housekeeping section) that verifies the integrity the program and displays a dialog with the information. Equivalent to going to the properties for the OSF executable, going to the digital signatures tab and clicking the details of the signature to verify the digital certificate is valid

Password Recovery:
- Fixed decrypting of wifi passwords on some machines due to a bug in PBKDF2 algorithm
- Updated common passwords dictionary with passwords obtained from more recent data breaches, increased number of unique passwords from ~10,000 to ~2.3 Million
- Fixed password recovery issue with the records in "Windows.old" folder
- Fixed crash in ZIP password recovery when testing a single password

Search Index:
- Fixed GDI handle leak

SQLite Browser:
- New Tab to shown Unallocated Space (Free Pages/Blocks) within SQLite database file
- Fixed bug to address possible circular reference/offset when parsing corrupted/bad free blocks
- Added Run SQL tab, allows users to write their own SQL statements
- Updated sqlite source files from 3.8.11.1 to V3.38.0

Start Window:
- Added settings option to allow for selecting language in use

System Information:
- Added partition selection dialog when scanning whole disk image with multiple partitions
- Added category for basic system information collection from non Windows machines

Thumbnail Cache / Viewer:
- Attempt to generate video file thumbnails if file extension is a known video type
- Attempt to load thumbnails only if the filename has a known file extension
- Set maximum thumbnail cache size of 2000 to prevent exceeding GDI handle limit
- Fixed multithreaded handling of video thumbnail generation using Media Foundation
- Fixed thumbnail icons not appearing in thumbnail view
- Added check for large buffer sizes before allocating memory for displaying thumbnails
- Migrated library used for video thumbnail generation from Windows Media Foundation to ffmpeg
- Fixed pixelated play icon for video thumbnails

User Activity:
- Added Cortana history category. Finds reminders, events, contacts and search history as well as location at time of creation
- Added "Create Super Timeline" button that performs a complete scan of all activity sub-categories
- USB timeline, added support to collect USB Artifacts of USB storage device connection and disconnection history. This feature is achieved by analyzing event ID 1006 (from Microsoft-Windows-Partition%4Diagnostic.evtx) and event IDs 2003 and 2012 (Microsoft-Windows-DriverFrameworks-UserMode/Operational channel). Event logging of the later channel is not enabled by default, users / system administrators need to have enabled it in the past in order for OSF to collect the relevant events
- Added parsing for Linux log files located in the /var/log directory
- Passwords, added an option to scan "Windows.old" folder which stores the backups of the previously installed Windows, this option is enabled by default and can be disabled from the Config dialog
- Fixed an issue where Moved Downloads not recognizing the system drive on live acquisition mode
- Added browser artifact support for some modern versions of Linux
- MRU, shortcut Files, will prompt users if they would like to open the .lnk file itself if the target file/directory is no longer available
- Added warning when attempting to scan a drive image that does not exist
- Shellbag, fixed possible heap corruption crash when parsing (corrupted) URI shell item
- Added check and warning message for missing case device when starting scan

Web Server Log Viewer:
- Added menu for filtering for common web exploits such as SQL injections

Misc:
- Refresh physical disk info only when there is device change notification, to reduce costly re-scanning of physical disks
- Keep single instance of physical disk info shared between all modules
- Fixed bugs with some MessageBoxes opening to wrong handle
- Changed some dialogs to close when 'esc' is pressed and centred others
- Installer, added language selection when running installer
- Rearranged some ok/cancel buttons for consistency, fixed up some out of place buttons/controls
- GPUSupport DLLs, changed the runtime library for them to /MT instead of /MD to avoid a missing VC runtime error on older Windows systems
- Centred some dialogs to main window for consistency
- Help file, updated file carving config info + images
- UI adjustments, centred additional dialogs
- Installer, updated OSFMount to v3.1.1001
- Installer, added Japanese language selection option
- Removed "Selected items" option from the right-click menu for consistency. Affected modules include JSON Viewer, ThumbCache Viewer, Web Server Log Viewer
- Updated DirectIO driver used for system information collection to work with Win11 22H2 release