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ILookPI Features:

  • Data capture, analysis, investigation and dissemination
  • The most advanced imaging solution available
  • An easy-to-use interface
  • Five built-in, fast and thorough search engines
  • Built-in development environment
  • Built-in file viewers for hundreds of file types
  • The leading salvage engine
  • Extremely fast hash engines and automated data reduction techniques
  • Built-in e-mail store processing, searching and viewing
  • Filesystem, file and e-mail recovery
  • Multiple categorization features
  • Registry viewing and searching
  • Virus/Trojan search and identification
  • VMware virtual disk production from devices or images
  • Context dictionary production for password cracking
  • IVault data store preparation and production
  • Support for all common archive file formats
  • Deconstruction of evidentially useful file types
  • Sorting, grouping and filtering of files and e-mail.
  • Advanced analysis functions
  • Advanced MS Outlook e-mail recovery
  • Illicit image and movie detection
  • Password protected file detection
  • File password cracking

What Our Customers Are Saying:

"...IXImager just out-performed the tool in our exercise. Lots of admiring by hard-core [other product] users took place in this class. Lots of IXImager envy."

- Federal Computer
Forensics Agent

Who We Are

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For over a decade, Perlustro, L.P. has been the most widely distributed law enforcement, military, and intelligence agency multifunction computer forensic examination system in the world. By supporting larger agencies with hundreds of users and tens of thousands of other users, Perlustro has helped encourage and expand computer forensics technology to fight crime and secure the well being of people in more than 60 countries. From 2001 to 2008 Perlustro was supported financially by the U.S. Treasury Department under contracts to produce the ILook brand of tools.  Early adopters and financial supporters of Perlustro’s products have also included over 90 Federal Government Agencies.

With significant technology development prior to its founding, Perlustro’s core applications evolved from Windows forensics tools, distributed only to national government agencies, down to small police departments across the globe. These tools were developed during the 1990s and released as ILook in 1995.  In 1999, the first wide public release to national agencies took place and, since then, Perlustro has provided its core computer forensics software exclusively to intelligence, military and law enforcement agencies until 2009.

Perlustro now offers commercial versions of its tool sets and no longer limits sales to the government agencies that began its support. The forensics suite of tools consists of new technologies for ILookPI and IXimager in the Windows and Linux development branches. IXimager is widely considered the most advanced tool for forensic imaging in existence. These tools, now part of the current product matrix, have been utilized by thousands of government users in all 50 U.S. states, in more than 60 countries, and by more than 90 U.S. Federal agencies, for investigations involving terrorism, white collar crimes and child pornography.

Perlustro’s new patent-pending technology will allow the entire production of digital information management to be conducted in low cost access, low spectrum forms with no management by using distributed computing environments for the collection of data no matter where it resides.

For the first time ever, the stakeholders in the data, or either party to a discovery request, can transparently acquire specific information in a form that allows unparalleled speed, efficiency and precision at only a fraction of the costs associated with any other method.

Management Team

President, Samuel James Baker

  • Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of IRS for 31 years, formerly  Chief Technical Advisor to the Director of Electronic Crimes
  • Partnered with Microsoft® to develop and implement the standard and primary desktop platform for IRS Criminal Investigation’s client desktop systems

VP Engineering, Erik Andersen

  • Copyright holder of BusyBox©, uClibc© and Buildroot©  technologies
  • Linux Kernel developer, Linux application developer, member of Linux developer community
  • Designer of hardware and software embedded systems using BusyBox© and, uClibc©

Engineering Team

  • The World for Linux
  • A lot of wonderful partners in Windows
  • Several people we would love to mention, but can’t.