HOUSTON, August 12, 2007 – A Houston forensic computer expert launched a new website today. The specialized IT pro works with some of Houston’s top private investigators to help desperate married clients find an answer to the painful question:
“Is my husband (or wife) having an affair?”
Gary Huestis says the new website gives an easy-to-understand overview of his company’s digital discovery services. Called eDiscovery Forensics, Inc., the Houston company focuses on the new 21st century science of computer forensics – the recovery of deleted, damaged and otherwise hidden computer information. “This is the type of intelligence spouses want and need to know when a mate is unfaithful and divorce is in the picture,” he says.
When a frantic wife or husband hires a private detective because they fear a spouse is cheating on them says Huestis, “one of the first places that detective turns is to forensic computer specialists like our experts at eDiscovery Forensics, Inc.”
While men and women whose marriages are in trouble frequently seek help from his company, Huestis says he doesn’t pretend to be a marriage counselor, family therapist or clinical psychologist. “Far from it,” he laughs. “Our specialty is analyzing things like an unfaithful mate’s instant messages and email chat – and we can reveal every word, right down to the smiley face at the end of a sentence.” Huestis says he puts his forensic computer skills to work to unravel illicit marital secrets hiding in:
Email messages and attachments
- Computer files that have been deliberately deleted or damaged
- Encrypted and password-protected files and folders
- Log files, temp files and other easily overlooked locations on a computer’s hard drive
Huestis uses special proprietary software to analyze computer hardware, such as:
- Cell phones
- Laptops
- Desktops
- Notebooks
- PDA’s
- Servers
- Digital camera media
“Infidelity, adultery and cheating is not new to the 21st century,” says Huestis, “and neither is hiring a private investigator to search out the truth. But hiring a forensic computer expert is a new wrinkle is the unpleasant reality of getting to the truth of a spouse’s faithfulness or unfaithfulness,” he says.
“Companies like eDiscovery Forensics are needed because today, almost everyone – and that includes couples involved in illicit affairs – communicate through computers. Nine times out of ten, if a man or woman is being unfaithful, there is evidence of that relationship somewhere on a laptop, desktop or cell phone.”
Huestis says people get in a hurry and forget that computers leave tracks. Big tracks. “They may think they’ve deleted all those emails about the southwest Houston hotel that is their special hideaway, or the strategies they’ve shared about not getting caught by spouses, but forensic computer experts and private investigators know the evidence is probably still present.”
Regular emailing and instant messaging about how an adulterous couple feels about each other is often easily resurrected, says Huestis – even from the tiny hard drive of an expensive Blackberry. “You can delete and reformat ‘til the cows come home,” he says, “but in the case of computers, the truth is hard to erase.”
For more information about Houston-based eDiscover Forensics, Inc., visit the company’s new website at www.ediscoveryforensics.com or call Gary Huestis at (713) 832-230-2851, for a free, private consultation.
ABOUT GARY HUESTIS
Gary Huestis is an EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE), the most widely-recognized certification a forensic computer specialist can earn. Only a handful of these forensic computer specialists live and work in Houston. According to Guidance Software, the world leader in computer investigative software for the law enforcement community, fewer than 1,000 computer specialists worldwide have earned the specialized EnCase credentials. Huestis began his computer career in 1988, as a systems engineer for Houston computer giant Compaq Computer Corporation. There, he was responsible for configuring, testing and debugging hardware and software before it was shipped to retailers. After an immense company restructuring in 2000, he turned his part-time job as an IT entrepreneur into a fulltime career as owner of Houston Computing Services, a company he founded in 1995. Huestis owns EDiscover Forensics, Inc., with Austin IT computer expert Joe Gandall.
