I was planning on doing something like this myself also. I think it's a great idea. A lot of people do not like having to use the command line. Even if it does only mean typing in a short command.
@xarbex - great tool, but you have to remember that a lot of users' eyesight isn't perfect and by using forms with "non standard" colours on may well eliminate a proportion of potential users. I'd just use the standard colours on the form.
With regards to people hacking your software and distributing it, have you looked into obfuscation?
I don't feel 25 is unreasonable for a File Carver. Yes Scalpel is free by nature I even link to it on my site so that those who want the interface and the added features can purchase my program, or those who want the free version can download it from its site.
I totally agree. If people don't want to pay $25 then they can just use Scalpel.
To those of you complaining about $25 to use a custom interface…. Do any of you have programming experiance? The time it takes to develop such tools cost much more than $25 worth of time. The reaserch on adding the headers and other information makes it completely worth the cost. Please keep in mind that most of this type of work is done in free time, and people like Xaberx are not getting paid to do it, this is thier method of getting something in return to help offset the cost. Thanks.
Yeah $25 seems totall reasonable. I thought $65 was a bit off the mark.
And yes….I do have programming experience.
Yeah $25 seems totall reasonable. I thought $65 was a bit off the mark.
And yes….I do have programming experience.
Yes, I believe that by your last statement. I do understand at the higher cost, but I was wondering about those that think that it should be free. I also hope that no one took offense at my comment. There was none intended. I have found that it really does make a difference when people have some experiance in the programming field.
I am currently working on making my own carving engine that doesnt use scalpel, I will be integrating this with my md5 database to allow for carving of only non benign files(can be switched off) this way it will be a more complete package aswell as provide a preview of the file before carving it out. These are just Ideas I was having for improving the performance. Let me know what you think.
would you rather have this as the interface??
Thanks and keep up the posts
yeh that interface looks like an improvement to me.
I have changed the interface to my application due to popular demand. The updated screenshots are availible at my website.
thankyou for all the posts and comments.
Bieng the only programmer on these progects makes it difficult to complete these tools at a low cost, I work Full time and have a wedding to plan (more my future wife than me) Keep up the comments and the great posts.