Free forensic tool to analyse memory Memoryze...

Hi malware fighters,

Computer users that are afraid their memory has been infected through malware, can now download a free
forensic tool.
Memoryze is an analysis tool that checks the physical memory of the Windows system and can do an extensive analysis :
: http://www.mandiant.com/software/memoryze.htmack
of the memory while the computer is running. Admins can establish what is running after an incident occurred and save the
output to establish there was an actual performed.

According the developer the tool can trace all sorts of threats:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/mandiant-releases-memoryzetm-software/story.aspx?guid={E19ECD60-5EA5-4D5D-8FAD-D59CBF448385}
It is memory resident shellcode placed on hard disk.
The program works on Windows XP, 2000 en Server 2003 and can be downloaded here: http://www.mandiant.com/software/mmdld.htm

polonus

Damien,
Is this better than the built in memory check function in avast! ???

@ Damien,

The initial link appears stuffed (getting technical I know) some text added to the end, this one works, http://www.mandiant.com/software/memoryze.htm

Hi bob3160,

t is a tool with a purpose and that is malware forensics:
“Memoryze is designed to catch the most sophisticated of threats. It analyzes physical memory and even parses the paging files – bypassing the operating system’s APIs. In the lab, we have shown that Memoryze can find memory resident-only shellcode, that does not exist on disk. If the attacker is there, Memoryze can pull the malicious code directly from memory, so our malware analysis team can begin the analysis.”

Damian

Thanks Damien but that doesn’t really answer my question.
For the average user, is it something that should be used instead of or, in conjunction with
the memory checker included in avast! ???