Sunday, May 2, 2010

WinCDEmu

WinCDEmu is an open-source software that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincdemu/

Bonkey

Bonkey is a simple to use backup system. It can backup to most storage devices, but it is specifically designed to be used with Amazon S3. You choose which files need to be backed up, select how often, set the destination and your files are backed up. It runs on Windows and Mac OSX.

http://sites.google.com/site/thebackupmonkey/

LexJongg

LexJongg is a free Mah-Jongg game for Windows.

http://www.steinke.net/lexjongg.php

Roadkil.net

Roadki.net is a web site that contains downloads for several different categories.  Topics include networking, disk, security, etc.

http://www.roadkil.net/

PowerShell in Bing Visual Search

To view PowerShell Cmdlets in Bing Visual Search:

1. Go to Bing: http://www.bing.com.

2. From the menu on the left, click Visual Search.

3. Click Reference, and scroll down to Scripting.

4. Click Windows PowerShell Cmdlets

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PowerShell Startup Options

Here is a listing of the available startup options for PowerShell:

-Command Specifies the command text to execute as though it were typed at the PowerShell command prompt.

-EncodedCommand Specifies the base64-encoded command text to execute.

-ExecutionPolicy Sets the default execution policy for the console session.

-File Sets the name of a script file to execute.

-InputFormat Sets the format for data sent to PowerShell as either text string or serialized XML. The default format is XML. Valid values are text and XML.

-NoExit Does not exit after running startup commands. This parameter is useful when you run PowerShell commands or scripts via the command prompt (cmd.exe).

-NoLogo Starts the PowerShell console without displaying the copyright banner.

-Noninteractive Starts the PowerShell console in non-interactive mode. In this mode, PowerShell does not present an interactive prompt to the user.

 -NoProfile Tells the PowerShell console not to load the current user’s profile.

 -OutputFormat Sets the format for output as either text string or serialized XML. The default format is text. Valid values are text and XML.

 -PSConsoleFile Loads the specified Windows PowerShell console file. Console files end with the .psc1 extension and can be used to ensure that specific snap-in extensions are loaded and available. You can create a console file using Export-Console in Windows PowerShell.

-Sta Starts PowerShell in single-threaded mode.

-Version Sets the version of Windows PowerShell to use for compatibility, such as 1.0.

-WindowStyle Sets the window style as Normal, Minimized, Maximized, or Hidden. The default is Normal.

Back up the System State with Windows Server 2008 R2

To back up the system state with Windows Server 2008 R2, install the Backup feature.  Then launch a command prompt and use:

wbadmin start systemstatebackup –backupTarget:VolumeName

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Network Monitoring link site

The following site has links to network monitoring options.

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html

Penetration Testing Linux Distributions

Below are some Linux distributions designed for penetration testing.

http://www.gnacktrack.co.uk/

http://www.netinfinity.org/

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/