Hurricane Search For System Administration

Whether you are a systems administrator tasked with security administration at your company, or a security administrator tasked with keeping your company data safe from intrusion, Hurricane Search will help you search log files to detect hackers who have attempted to gain access to your network. Ensure that sensitive information is protected, investigate employees online activities.
Standard Edition
$89

The industry standard in searching providing a fast and flexible search to find data stored in text files on computer hard drives and CD's.
Professional Edition
$149

This edition builds off of the industry standard in searching and allows the user to search in more file types including: Binary, Archived (ZIP and Java JAR), Microsoft Word, and Adobe PDF files. Please feel free to click the download button to start a trial version today.

Hurricane Search - System Administration

Hurricane Search helps administrators by searching for relevant data stored in log files. Text files, PDF documents, and Word files are thoroughly searched as well as binary files.

Originally released as WinGREP, Hurricane Search is used worldwide by thousands of professionals to find text and build legal evidence. Our customers have reported that Hurricane Search has been used to conduct employee investigation, ensure intellectual property protection, assist law enforcement officers, and located malicious data in business environments or on client workstations.

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Intuitive interface designed to
make searching fast and easy


Use Hurricane Search for your system administration tasks

  • Intuitive interface designed to make searching fast and easy

  • Select multiple directories to include or exclude from searches

  • Search documents, manuals, archives, and more without clumsily switching between environments

  • User interface enhances the way you work through minimized keystrokes, resulting in maximized productivity

  • Real time searching across large files and directories - never wait for indexing or lose recent changes

  • Preview your search results in context - view the search match and several lines around the match

  • Supports advanced regular expressions for additional searching power including control characters, newline, grouping, logical OR, whitespace tags, alpha tags, and digit expressions, etc.

  • Search compressed Zip and Jar files as well as any binary files

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$89
Standard Edition
$149
Professional Edition


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