Re: System Baseline and Tracking of Script Install of Application(s)

[Kurt Buff <kurt.buff () gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Noob Pen Tester <noobpentester () gmail com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Do you know of an application that will do one of the following:
> a) Generate a baseline system profile, install applications via a script,
> and then compare what was done to the system with the baseline profile?
> b) Track all changes to a system while running?
>
> Basically I need something that will track all changes on the Windows
> platform. This includes all files placed and where, all registry changes,
> all registered DLL's etc., and any other system changes.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Noob Pen Tester

I'd first take a look at this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645

I'm sure there are many other tools, but this will give you a good
start on what you want. You might also want to do a validated minimal
installation of Windows, then boot from something that understands
NTFS and can read all of the files to produce a secure hash of all
files on the disk to external media.


Kurt

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