FileAlyzer är ett verktyg för att analysera filer - namnet var egentligen bara ett stavfel av FileAnalyzer, men efter några dagar bestämde jag mig för att behålla det. FileAlyzer tillåter en grundanalysering av filer (som visar filers egenskaper och dess innehåll i hex dumpar) och har möjligheten att tolka vanliga filers innehåll som resursuppbyggnad (som text, grafik, HTML, media och PE).

Användandet av FileAlyzer är lika enkelt som att kolla in egenskaperna för en fil - bara att högerklicka på filen du vill analysera och välja Öppna i FileAlyzer.

• 1.1 la till text tabeller (CSV) och databas (dBase) format.
• 1.1b la till en Inställningarmeny och nya språk
• 1.1c förbättrar översättning och lägger till dynamisk hex dump bredd och även sträng igenkänning.
• 1.1d (5:e Juli, 2003) la till visning av import/export tabeller och skapandet av rapporter i text format.
• 1.1e (29:e Juli, 2003) la till färgade hex dumpar, resurser som visas i hex dumpar, stöd för flera språk vid visning av version och en meny i sektioner.
• 1.1f (12:e Augusti, 2003) la till funktion där fönstrets storlek/postion sparas, DFM dekomprimering, UPX dekomprimering, ELF (linux binärt) analys, exportering av resurser, syntaxerna syns bättre i text förhandsgranskning.
• 1.1g (8:e September, 2003) små fixar, filformaten är specificerade i externa filer.
• 1.1h (25:e September, 2003) förbättrad visning av resurser, ID3V2 support, cab support, snabbare uppstart.
• 1.1i ADS support, visning av filernas säkerhetsinställningar.
• 1.2 (4:e Mars, 2005) visning av CHM innehåll, skanning av PE signaturer, flera små fixar.
• 1.2 rel 2 (Juni 2005) Underhåll med släpp av flera översättningar.
• 1.2 rel 3 (8:e Juli, 2005) Underhåll med släpp av flera översättningar.
• 1.4 (13:e December, 2005) Ny version som inkluderad ACL editering och visning av text, sök resultat städas upp med Del tangenten.

What follows is a list of tabs that are shown in FileAlyzer (depending on the file type you open), with a short description.

• General - The initial information FileAlyzer will show is not much different from what the Windows Properties dialog will show you: file name and location, size, date & times, version and attributes. In addition to those, FileAlyzer will show you both the CRC-32 and the Message Digest 5 checksum of the file, too.
   
• Version - Another important feature that the Windows Properties dialog shows is also implemented in FileAlyzer: for executable files and system libraries, it shows the Version resources if available.
   
• Resources - Many executable files have so-called resources - bitmaps, icons and text they use, as well as menus, dialogs and whole windows are usually defined in resources. If you don't know what the purpose of a file is, having a look at its text (see screenshot) or bitmaps may give you an idea.
   
• PE Header - PE stands for Portable Executable and is a description for the structure of modern Windows (and other platform) files. Nearly all executables and system libraries follow this structure. FileAlyzer can display an insight into this structure on its PE Header tab, showing everything from the target platform to addresses of specific parts of the file.
   
• Sections - A modern PE file makes clear differences between code (those bytes representing instructions the program will execute), data, resources and other important parts. The Sections tab in FileAlyzer will display the sections contained in the file you analyze. If you want to see the contents of a specific section, just double-click it and FileAlyzer will jump to the beginning of that section on the Hexdump tab.
   
• New in 1.1d: Import/Export table - Most windows programs will use Windows libraries for basic functionality. Many libraries also export their own functions. FileAlyzer is able to display names of both imported and exported functions of a PE file.
   
• Hex dump - Are you a byte junkie and want to look at the file content with a hex editor? FileAlyzer has a fast and easy hex viewer with search capability.
  New in 1.1c: dynamic width of hex dump depending on window width, and string recognition listing all strings used in a separate list (linked to hex dump).
   
• Image preview - If the file is a graphic that is supported by Windows, the graphic can be previewed on an Image preview tab in FileAlyzer.
   
• Text preview - If the file you open in FileAlyzer is a text file of some sort, you may want to view it's contents, like the classic QuickView from Windows 9x allowed you to. FileAlyzer can display plain text as well as text in the Rich Text Format (files with the extension .rtf).
   
• INI contents (new in version 1.1) - Previewing an INI file in the text preview is nice, but for a quick overview, a more structures list may be better. So FileAlyzer will show you the sections in one list, with a second list showing the contents of the currently selected section.
   
• HTML preview - If you want to have a look at a suspicious HTML file, maybe from you Application Data folder (where C2.lop stores 2 such files) or in your Temporary Internet Files, but you do not want to use Internet Explorer (to avoid active contents of the file to be executed), you can also use FileAlyzer. As it uses its own HTML parser instead of IE for this preview, this is much safer.
   
• Zip preview - If the file in question is a zip file (it does not necessarily need to have the .zip extension as FileAlyzer will detect if it is one), FileAlyzer will display the contents of the zip file and allow you to extract one or more files from it. This function needs the external library UnzDll.dll, which is installed along with FileAlyzer.
   
• Database preview (new in version 1.1) - If the file is a comma- or tab-separated text file, FileAlyzer will display its contents in grid form. Old dBase databases (.dbf) will be displayed in two lists: one displaying the structure, one the actual contents (small databases will be read completely into memory, larger database entries will be loaded upon access).
   
• Media preview - If the file is an audio or video file, a tab Media preview will also allow to play back the file. this media preview is still very basic and shouldn't be taken too serious.
   
• ID3 tag - FileAlyzer will display ID3 tags in all v1 versions, including ID3v1, ID3v1.1, Lyrics v3 and Lyrics v3.1 ID3 tags are track information used in MP3 audio files.
   
• RIFF - RIFF is the structure used in WAV (audio) files as well as in AVI (video) files. FileAlyzer is able to display the properties and tree structure of RIFF files. If you double-click an entry in the tree, FileAlyzer will jump to that address on the Hex dump tab.
   

Endast en liten sak kvar: oavsett vilken flik i FileAlyzer du tittar under, kommer fönstret att visa en Hoppa till knapp som öppnar ett Utforskarfönster med den öppna filen markerad.

Om du vill använda FileAlyzer som standard filvisare för Spybot-S&D, så kan du starta Spybot-S&D i avancerat läge och använda expert inställningen för att konfigurera FileAlyzer som extern visare av filer.

Notera: FileAlyzer behövs inte konfigureras (allt du behöver göra är att installera och avinstallera det) och det ska inte komma i konflikt med något annat program.