Media Detective

Media Detective is a software application that comes packed with cleaning capabilities for helping you scan and remove inappropriate materials from one’s computer.

The user interface is really simple and allows users to choose between four scanning modes, namely quick, normal, rigorous and user-defined. The first two operations are quick, as the program scans the PC for the most common file types, while the third mode might take some time, as it provides a thorough search procedure.

Media Detective is able to look for obscene materials by searching for images (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF), documents (DOC, HTML, PPT, XLS), audio files (MP3, WAV, WMA, OGA), clips (e.g. AVI, ASF, MPEG, OGV, FLV, ISO) as well as Internet history files.

The user-defined process can be configured by making file associations, ignoring low quality images and size-limited clips, and testing large or recent files.

You are required to select the drives to be scanned, and you can view details about the total number of scanned items and suspicious files. At the end of the process, the application automatically displays in a dedicated pane the suspicious images, videos, tracks, documents and Internet history files.

It is possible to view photos, listen to audio tracks and view clips before deleting them, thanks to its built-in tools. What’s more, items can be sorted by name, suspicion percentage, size, directory, modified or accessed date, and other filters as well.

Media Detective enables users to delete, rename or move to another location the selected files, perform searches throughout the results, and add items to a safe list.

When it comes to deleting options, you can make the program eliminate the files permanently, send them to the Recycle Bin, or ask for confirmation before removing them.

All things considered, Media Detective offers an intuitive working environment for helping users search for obscene media and delete suspicious files.