Re: Looking at windows logs

James,

Avoid all of these issues all together...this is actually a pretty easy fix.

http://windowsir.blogspot.com/2008/03/event-log-analysis.html

or

http://www.eventlogxp.com/



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Harlan Carvey
"Windows Forensic Analysis"
http://windowsir.blogspot.com
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--- On Thu, 5/29/08, James B Horwath <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: James B Horwath <[email protected]>
> Subject: [logs] Looking at windows logs
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 2008, 8:42 AM
> I hope somebody can help me.   I have a windows EVT file
> from a system 
> that I want to view on another computer (which is a windows
> XP laptop). I 
> booted the laptop with Linux (backtrack) and tried to
> remove the old 
> security.evt file and replace it with mine.  Even with the
> windows drive 
> mounted with "rw" I could manipulate any of the
> files or permissions.  I 
> kept receiving a message "read-only" media.
> 
> I thought maybe I could use the eventquery.vbs file from
> the command line 
> using the /L switch  to dump the logs, this did not work.
> It appears only 
> the windows categories are readable.  I have a licensed
> copy of Adiscon 
> eventviewer and a copy of lasso. 
> 
> Can anyone offer any suggestions on how to extract this
> data?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Jim
> 
>  
> 
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