The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar and Other Mozilla Firefox ...

S E A R C H

T R A I N I N G

S E R V I C E S

The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar

and Other

Mozilla Firefox

Investigative Extensions

Keith I. Daniels

High-Tech Crime Training Specialist

Lauren Wagner

High-Tech Crime Training Specialist

Rev. May 2008

SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics

7311 Greenhaven Drive, Suite 270 ? Sacramento, California 95831 ? (916) 392-2550 ?

This report was prepared by SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice Information

and Statistics, Francis X. Aumand III, Chairman, and Ronald P. Hawley, Executive

Director. This report was produced as a product of a project funded by the Bureau

of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice,

under Cooperative Agreement No. 2005-DD-BX-K039, awarded to SEARCH Group,

Incorporated, 7311 Greenhaven Drive, Suite 145, Sacramento, California 95831.

Contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the BJA or

the U.S. Department of Justice. Copyright ? SEARCH Group, Incorporated, dba SEARCH,

The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics, 2006.

NOTICE: This document is subject to frequent updates. Please check .

programs/hightech/ to download the latest version in PDF.

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The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar and Other Mozilla Firefox Investigative Extensions

I. The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar

Law enforcement investigators continually strive for ways they can streamline and

enhance their investigations. To aid investigators who are conducting online, cellular

telephone and wireless investigations, SEARCH, The National Consortium for Justice

Information and Statistics,1 has created an investigative aid called the SEARCH

Investigative Toolbar (Figure 1).

Figure 1: The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar

About the Toolbar

This toolbar is a ¡°Firefox extension¡± but can be downloaded as an executable file

for Internet Explorer.2 The toolbar contains a number of buttons that, when clicked,

provide drop-down menus offering pre-configured online investigative links (Figure

2). Left clicking on any of these links opens the webpage associated with that link.

Figure 2: Drop-down Web Links on the SEARCH Investigative Toolbar

The purpose of the SEARCH Investigative Toolbar is to provide online investigators

like you with a desktop resource that contains the most frequently used and up-to-date

resources available for conducting online, cellular telephone and wireless investigations.

By placing the toolbar on your desktop, it becomes a readily available resource. You

will not have to sort through long lists of saved ¡°favorites¡± to find the right tool to

assist in your investigation. The toolbar contains the tools that SEARCH uses during

our high-tech crime training courses and which we recommend as the most current

and appropriate resources for use by investigators. Another advantage of the toolbar

is its ability to globally update the links to all users. Links are removed, added or

updated frequently by SEARCH staff. This way the SEARCH Investigative Toolbar is

always up to date.

1 SEARCH is dedicated to improving the quality of justice and public safety through the use, management and exchange of information; application of new technologies; and responsible law and policy, while safeguarding security

and privacy. SEARCH offers a range of training courses designed to teach high-tech investigators the skills they need

to stay ahead of criminals in the fight against crime.

2 Internet Explorer is a copyrighted product of Microsoft Corporation. Mozilla Firefox is a free, open source, crossplatform graphical web browser. It includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support

for open standards, and an extension mechanism for added functionality. See an important Firefox notice on page

4 in ¡°Downloading the Toolbar.¡±

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The number of Firefox extensions available is ever increasing; we have attempted

to provide links that are up to date and as effective as possible without being

cluttered. These links will change over time as new pages are found or present ones

become invalid. Please email training@, with any suggestions or

recommended additions or changes.

IMPORTANT:

If you are

not using

Firefox , see

¡°Downloading,

Installing and

Using Mozilla

Firefox¡± on

page 7 before

downloading

the SEARCH

Investigative

Toolbar.

Downloading the Toolbar

You may download the SEARCH Investigative Toolbar from the following link:

(Figure 3). Note: This site is not

maintained by SEARCH. The use of the toolbar is based on the user agreement with

EffectiveBrand, the owner of the website. See their privacy policy on page 5 for

further details.

Figure 3: SEARCH Investigative Toolbar Download Page

The download files are:

Web Browser

Mozilla Firefox

Windows Internet Explorer

For installation

assistance from

SEARCH, contact

training@.

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Download File

searchinvestigative.xpi

searchinvestigative.exe

The download is very fast. If you are using Firefox, simply open the Firefox browser.

Navigate to Tools-Extensions on the taskbar and left-click on Extensions. This will

show the SEARCH Investigative Toolbar extension, ready to install. Click on the Install

button. Once this is done, close the Firefox browser and than re-open it. The new

toolbar should appear and be operational. If you have problems, repeat the process.

The SEARCH Investigative Toolbar and Other Mozilla Firefox Investigative Extensions

Re-opening the Extensions window should show the following (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Firefox Extensions Window Showing SEARCH Investigative Toolbar

Uninstalling can be performed in the same way as the initial installation. Simply

navigate back to Tools-Extensions on the Firefox taskbar, highlight the extension to

be removed and click the Uninstall button.

Toolbar Updates and Privacy Policy

You will observe that the toolbar occasionally updates itself. This occurs only when

changes are made to the toolbar by SEARCH staff. No one else is able to make

changes. Changes will only be made to provide investigators with the most current

links. The only information recorded by the website owners (EffectiveBrand) is the

number of toolbar downloads and number of visits by the total number of clients.

No information on individual users is collected. Please read the EffectiveBrand

Privacy Statement shown in Figure 5 or on the website.

Figure 5: EffectiveBrand¡¯s Privacy Policy

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