SAFE Block User's Guide

Installation

License File. The license file is obtained from www.forensicsoft.com. There are two kinds of licenses: trial and full.

• A trial license is free, time-constrained, will work on any Windows XP machine (it is not tied to a machine), and does not require registration.
• A full license must be purchased, is not time-constrained, must be registered on the www.forensicsoft.com web site using a machine id provided by the installer, and is then tied to work only on that machine. The license may not be moved or used on another machine after registration.

The SAFE Block XP installer will ask you if you have a license.

If you have trial license, or have purchased and registered a full license, then select "I already have a license file". Skip to License Browse below in this help file.

If you have purchased a full license, but not registered it and received it, then select "I need a license file". The following screen will appear:

The machine ID shown at the bottom is what you enter at the www.forensicsoft.com web site to register the product. In the installer window (shown above) you can click and drag over the number to select it, right click and choose "copy" so that you can paste it into the appropriate box on www.forensicsoft.com. After doing this:

• Go to www.forensicsoft.com
• Login using your username and password
• Go to the "My Account" link across the top
• Go to "Get My Products and View My Orders"
• Your purchased license will be listed there with text stating it is "unregistered" and button to register it. Click the register button.
• This will bring up the page with the box for the machine ID that you previously copied from the installer. Paste the machine ID into this box. You should also enter a name for your license, like "John's Computer" so you know to which computer you registered this license.
• Your license is now registered. Again go to "Get My Products and View My Orders" on the "My Account" page of www.forensicsoft.com.
• Your license will now show as registered and will have a "Get License" button. Click this and download the license to a place on your computer. Remember this place, you'll need it in the next step.

License Browse. The SAFE Block XP installer will prompt you to browse to the license file as shown here.

The license file will be copied and kept in the SAFE Block installation folder.

The SAFE Block installation folder is selected next:

The SAFE Block installation folder must be on the system disk, the disk on which the operating system is installed.

Initial Default Policies.

After several installation steps, the installer will ask for the default blocking policies with which you wish SAFE Block XP to start, as shown here.

• Block removable disk by default (USB, IEE1394) - checking this box means that removable drives, such as USB thumb drives, USB card readers, other flash media, and firewire (IEEE1394) devices will be write blocked by default both at boot time and when they are connected to a running system.



• Block fixed disk by default (IDE, SCSI) - checking this box means SAFE Block XP will block all fixed disks (except the system disk, which cannot be blocked, and CD/DVD drives which cannot be blocked).

If either box is not checked, the devices associated with unchecked box(es) will not be blocked by default, but the user can block them at any time through the SAFE Block XP interface. These boxes set the initial default policies for SAFE Block XP; default policies can be changed using the Settings feature of SAFE Block XP (see the Setup Help section). The original default is to have both boxes checked, which provides maximum protection for forensic use.

You must re-start your computer after installation to activate SAFE Block XP.