discovery tools - indexing

[rsreese at gmail.com (Stephen Reese)]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Kevin Shortt <kevin.shortt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend an effective indexing tool to search for key terms on a
> windows workstation??? Right now I am slated to use the OS search function,
> but was not sure if there is anything I should be looking at that would be
> more effective.
>
> Any and all feedback is appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Kevin

Kevin,

Do you have an image of the system you're working with or does the
search need to be performed on a live machine? You may want to
consider Sleuthkit/Autopsy to create a index that is later able to be
searched. It can even produce a shiny time line :-)

If you're looking for something to just search a file system maybe
Google Desktop? Not really sure if you're trying to perform some type
of forensic analysis or not.