RE: Netscape History file

From: mark.wiaterat_private
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 10:32:05 PDT

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    It's not encase but it is a script...
        
    Lifted straight from http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Netscape/History.html
    
    			#!/usr/bin/perl -w
                      
                      use Netscape::History;
                      use Date::Format;
                      use strict;
                      
                      my $history;
                      my $url;
                      
                      $history = new Netscape::History;
                      while (defined($url = $history->next_url() ))
                      {
                          print "$url :\n";
                          print "    First  : ",
    ctime($url->first_visit_time());
                          print "    Last   : ", ctime($url->last_visit_time());
                          print "    Count  : ", $url->visit_count(), "\n";
                          print "    Expire : ", $url->expire(), "\n";
                          print "    Title  : ", $url->title(), "\n";
                      }
                      $history->close();
    Mark
    
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Manuel Beltran [mailto:MBeltranat_private]
    > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:50 PM
    > To: Forensics
    > Subject: Netscape History file
    > 
    > 
    > Hello Cyber-Sleuths,
    > 
    > The Netscape history file keeps track of places you have 
    > been, including
    > dates.  I have found an entry in the history file that is 
    > very significant
    > to my case, but Netscape seems to have marked it as expired 
    > and I cannot get
    > the NS History viewer to display the entry.  I can see it 
    > with strings,
    > gHex, BinText, etc, but I cannot get the date info I need 
    > this way since the
    > date field is in binary.
    > 
    > Is there a viewer that anyone knows of that will let me 
    > review the entire
    > contents of the history file (netscape.hst - Win32, 
    > history.dat - Unix), in
    > its entirety?  Seems to me that this would be a very common 
    > tool to have.
    > We have become spoiled by the lack of privacy in IE and ease 
    > with which this
    > info can be had, so I suspect that there are not too many 
    > tools out there
    > for NS.  An EnCase escript would be nice :)
    > 
    > Thanks for your help.
    > 
    > Manuel Beltran
    > OnlineSecurity
    > 
    > 
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