Mandiant Highlighter - Text/Log analyzer

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Mandiant Highlighter - Text/Log analyzer

#1 Post by __philippe »

Since a topic about (take a deep breath...) searching for and highlighting simultaneously all occurences of a text string (exhale now...)
stirred up some discussion recently, perhaps another piece of related but little-known portable software might also be of interest to someone:

Mandiant-Highlighter v1.1.3 released 12-SEP-2011

Originally developed as a forensice tool to examine Text and Log files, this highlighter provides three distinct views of a plain text file under scrutiny:
  • Text view: allows users to highlight interesting keywords and filter out lines with "known good" content;
    keywords hits can each be highlighted with their own distinctive background color, selected from a palette of 48 built-in nuances.
  • Graphical view: shows all content and the full structure of the file, rendered as an image that is dynamically editable through the user interface
  • Histogram view: displays patterns in the file over time; usage patterns become visually apparent and provide the examiner
    with useful metadata that is not available in other text viewers/editors
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Mandiant-Highlighter freeware Resources
Mandiant-highlighter distro package :
sdl-highlighter.zip (contains an *.MSI installer... :o ...fear not, ...LessMSI to the rescue (*)...;-)

Step-by-step "installation"...

1.Extract MandiantHighlighter1.1.3.msi file from the sdl-highlighter.zip distro,
2.Open MandiantHighlighter1.1.3.msi with LessMSI (*)
3.Extract two files :
Highlighter.exe
HighlighterUserGuide.pdf


Et voilà !

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(*) LessMSI Resources

LessMSI Website
LessMSI Current release
LessMSI TPCF discussion:

Mandiant Highlighter sample screenshot:

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Re: Mandiant Highlighter - Text/Log analyzer

#2 Post by __philippe »

Just chanced upon this in-depth review of Mandiant Highlighter v1.1.3 :


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Re: Mandiant Highlighter - Text/Log analyzer

#3 Post by webfork »

Old thread update:

As I have a use for multiple word and phrase highlighting, I tested this out a bit ...

* Program appears to be portable (tested 1.1.3) but hasn't been updated since 2013
* A bit crashy even on an old 32-bit Win7 system.
* You can search for multiple highlighted characters via "case insensitive regex" and a pipe character e.g. dog|cat will highlight both dog and cat separately

Not really sure what the set field and some of the other options do.

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