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Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations

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I bought this book (3rd edition) at a modest price from a really great Amazon vendor, Jennifer's Attic. However, it is by far the worst textbook that I have ever used in my life. Simply put, it is replete with errors, omissions and useless repetition. I'd bet a dozen glazed donuts that the four authors who compiled this book have not recently gone through the book's one hundred plus activities and projects to check for errors and omissions. It's a required text for a graduate Computer Forensics course at a state university where I'm pursuing a computer science certificate to add to my 4 year Industrial Technology degree. If they care here's some recommendations to the authors for the next revision; 1. Cut out all the useless repetition - sure you can repeat things but gee... 2. Don't go into such depth on so many different complex software tools, 3. Verify that your activities and projects actually work - validate each one of them to correct the numerous errors and resolve the many omissions.

Summary for anyone interested in Computer Forensics; if you have to buy this book as a required textbook - don't take the course unless its mandatory and you have a great deal of extra time to waste. To everyone else - who's simply looking for a book - run for your lives. There must be several other computer forensics books that are better than this one.

P.S. I have no affiliation with any textbook authors or publisher and can't say what's a good book on this subject - just that this one's bad.

I have just finished my computer forensics certification at the University of Washington, and we used the Guide to Computer Forensics and Investigations (Third Edition) as the primary text for three courses. I found it to be a comprehensive treatise of all of the skills necessary to complete a successful digital investigation. In addition, I have had a chance to review portions of the soon to be released Fourth edition, which is even better. You can't go wrong with this computer forensics book. It should be a part of every computer forensics investigator's professional library.

My husband dropped this class but he read the book anyway! He said it was really interesting and enjoyed it. I must warn you - my husband is a geek so unless you yourself are also a geek I wouldn't buy this book for recreational reading ;)

I needed it for school so I wasn't thrilled about it, but it is a good book and was just as the seller described. Received it in a reasonable fashion as well.

this book covers most topics of computer forensics investigations. easy to understand, it is very good for a beginner

The Book (And CD) to have, if you are studying Computer Forensics and Networking Security ! There must be a hundred web references in this book, that points you to numerous agencies, businesses and software companies that are directly related to Computer Forensics and Security. Once you read this book, you will want to hang on to it from now on. A fantastic desk reference and easy to read and understand. Much better than going with the e-book! This is a book you will keep handy the rest of your career. The web links and references make it well worth the price alone.

Book has turned out to be a good source of information. The image on the site needs to updated, but that's par for the course.

for the value, its not bad and has good people providing tech assistance when ot was written.

The book is really usefull even if Computer Forensics is a new thing to me. It has a step by step guide to do Forensics from getting the evidence, preserving the evidence, until showing it in the court. The book even have the picture of how the room of investigator have to be. 2 program are included in the disc. One of the program is a software that is used widely. The other software is really helpful too understand what we have to do to gain information from the evidence.

Overall, this is a nice and perfect book for newbie in Computer Forensics field (It nice for advance people too) with 2 software that can be use daily.

everything went down fine. no problems, the cd was intact and was up and running prodiscover quickly

This book shipped just as promised. There were a few highlighted areas of text and you could tell it was used, but it is exactly what I was expecting and what I paid for. Shipping was quicker than I expected and I would definitely purchase form them again. Great job!