Shellter

Shellter: Anti-Forensic Tool for Privacy Protection

Shellter helps protect your privacy by making forensic analysis of your computer more difficult, creating decoy files, folders, and registry entries to confuse investigators.

What is Shellter?

Shellter is an open source anti-forensic and anti-spyware application designed to help protect your privacy. It works by creating various decoy elements on your computer like fake folders, files, and registry entries in order to confuse cyber forensics examination and make it more difficult to gather real evidence from your system.

Some key features of Shellter include:

• Creation of a significant number of decoy files and folders to occupy free disk space.
• Generation of user-defined content like documents, images or executables in decoy files and folders to increase authenticity.
• Addition of decoy programs, drivers and services in the registry.
• Masking of the real files and folders on your system.

Shellter is often used by privacy activists, journalists, or corporate environments where trade secrets need safeguarding. By generating fake evidence, Shellter makes it difficult for an adversary to find your real data and activity traces during computer seizure or remote system compromise. It works on all latest Windows versions.

Since Shellter actively alters sensitive parts of your system like the file/registry structure, it does require administrator access. The decoy files also take up sizable disk space. But overall it provides a robust anti-forensic shield to protect your privacy.

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