What happened to the free version of Windows Forensic Toolchest™ (WFT)?
After providing WFT for free to the security community for nearly 4 years, I have decided to make version 3.x a commercial product. WFT is still available for download, but the downloaded version is restricted to specific uses identified within its license. WFT has consumed several hundred hours of development and support over the last few years, and while $100 is a modest amount, it will help motivate me to continue to develop and support WFT (since the donation model did not work out at all). There is also a new WFT Pro version in development which will include several additional features useful in an enterprise environment along with a new GUI. Pricing for this version will be slightly higher, but will also include WFT. Paid WFT users will of course receive 100% upgrade credit towards the upcoming Pro version. I have no plans of supporting the 1.x or 2.x code bases in the immediate future and will instead be focusing on bringing new features to version 3.x.
