Re: Bootable vuln CD for Windows

["Nicki Messerschmidt" <bugtraq () alienn net>]

Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> Since the client has to be installed on the running Windows system, it
> shouldn't be too hard to fool by some pre-existing trojan. I was
> therefore wondering, if you know any way of running such a
> vulnerability scanner from a bootable CD, thus making sure that all
> benchmarks start from a clean system and results can be trusted.
Why not try Knoppix [1]. It'a a cd based linux with an preinstalled
nessus. I like it and it's always fun to boot an win2k client into a
full blown linux server, when needed... *eg*


just my 2 cent...
Nicki

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