Detection Master Features

Detection Master has extensive capabilities but can also be used as a quick effective solution for wiping files, recovering deleted pictures or even cleaning up your hidden data records from Windows.

Listed below are the main features of Detection Master 3 software categorised by tool or program view. To ensure you get the right features you need please refer to our products page.

Low Level Search (Pro and Forensic versions)

• Searches can be manual or automatic where Detection Master analyzes as it goes and provides either thumbnail images or detailed results of file analysis
• Search your computer, digital camera or other storage device for deleted pictures
  • Formats currently supported include :
    • Standard JPG's
    • Digital camera JPG's
    • Non standard JPG's
    • GIF Images
    • Bitmaps
    • PNG
    • PCX Paintbrush
• Search your computer for deleted movie or video files
  • Formats currently supported include :
    • Avi videos
    • Mpeg movies
    • Mpeg2/DVD Movies
    • Asf/wmv videos
    • RealMedia files
    • QuickTime movies
• Search your computer for deleted music and audio files
  • Formats currently supported include :
    • mp3 files
    • wav files
    • Midi files
    • Ogg files
• Search your computer for all deleted file signatures (Forensic version only)
  • Some of the file signatures currently supported include :
    • The image files listed above
    • JPEG2000, TIF, WMF and EMF files
    • The video and movie files listed above
    • PDF documents
    • ZIP and RAR files
    • System executables such as EXE and DLL
    • Compound Office Documents including DOC and XLS.
    • MSISAM, JETDB, DBX
    • SWF
    • PWL
    • URL
    • CSV
    • HTML, XML
    • TORRENT
    • REG
• Search your virtual memory (swap file or paging file) for deleted picture files
• Build your own custom search
  • Credit card numbers, your name or any other personal information
• Recover any of these files or even rebuild custom files
• Securely overwrite the raw data that is found in the low level search

Explorer View

• Erase files or folders
• Securely delete files or folders beyond recoverability
• Automatically rebuild normally deleted files
• Access files in user accounts which have been made private
• Flush shadow entries for deleted files and folders
• Launch the Cluster Viewer to view the low level data for a selected file or folder
• Clean file slack
• Clean File Record slack in the MFT on NTFS drives
• Copy files for pasting into a separate folder.
• Calculate the CRC32 value of files.
• Run files with their associated application
• Print folder listings

Personal Privacy Management

• Clean unused diskspace
• Clean file slack
• Clean up or view temporary internet files, url histories, cookies and more after web browsing
• Clean up or view recent file lists or playlists for Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, QuickTime or Paint
• Clean the virtual memory file
• Clean up or view temporary files
• Remove or view the User Assist records
• Clean up or view Recent Documents
• Remove or view Recent Document records from the registry
• Remove or view the Open and Save records from the registry
• Remove or view the Find Files records from the registry
• Remove or view the Text Search records from the registry

Cluster Viewer

• View clusters in either text or hex format
• Identify cluster chains
• Check FAT values for any cluster
• Print or save to file cluster data for later use
• Print or save to file cluster chains for later use
• Associate file names with clusters
• Clean clusters using a secure Clearance Routine

dm Thumbs

• View thumbnail images stored inside thumbs.db files
• View thumbnail images stored inside ehthumbs.db files
• Save thumbnail images to a separate file
• Recover the original filename for images
• Zoom in on thumbnail images

Drive Copy

• Create a copy of a drive on another drive

Wipe Drive

• Wipe the entire contents of a drive including the file system