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Recent File Seeker is a tool created to search for files using special filters like the creation date and the file extension.

The results are compatible with UVK.

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Even though RFS was created to search for malware, you can use it to search whatever you wish.

It uses a very dynamic search pattern, that allows to enter several search strings at once, and also wild cards.

Search strings must be separated by "|". e.g. to search for files named photo usa.jpg and photo france.jpg you should use photo usa.jpg|photo france.jpg as the pattern.

But since the pattern allows you to use wild cards you could also have used photo *.jpg, but this could match other photo names than france or usa like photo portugal.jpg or just photo .jpg. The wild card * matches any character 0 or more times.

An easy way to fine the pattern would be to use photo ??a???.jpg. This pattern would match the string photo +0 to 2 characters + a + 0 to 3 characters + .jpg.

Thus, it would match photo usa.jpg and photo france.jpg but not photo portugal.jpg (because it has more than 2 characters before the a) nor photo .jpg (because there is no a), but it would match photo a.jpg, so if you really wanted to search only photo usa.jpg and photo france.jpg you should use the first example.

So, the wild card ? will match any character 0 or one times.

A common procedure to search for malware is to use the default search pattern and set the file age field to one or two days before the infection. RFS will then search all the executable files, DLLs, cmd and vbs scripts, and drivers created within the selected number of days.

The results will be saved to the file on the field Save results to:. Click Browse to select a different file.

You can choose to search the files / folders based on their creation date, last access or last modified, in the combo box after Based on:.

If the field File name pattern is empty, no filter will be used, so all the files created, modified or accessed (depending on which option you use) within the selected number of days will be written to the report.

Uncheck Ignore Microsoft files if you want all the files matching the pattern to be shown. Leaving this box checked will make RFS ignore Microsoft files.

Check Include folder names if you want to RFS to search the pattern in folder names too. In this case, if you use file extension patterns for the file names you should add one or more patterns for the folder names.

e.g: if you want to search for executable files, drivers and folder names containing Antivirus XP you should use the pattern .exe|.sys|antivirus xp.

If Include file description is checked, RFS will write the file description of all the files found.

Check Include company name if you want RFS to also write the file publisher in the report.

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