Where do you find outdated services

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

There isn't a good answer to this. I keep a few external drives full of 
evaluation software, but often resort to google searches to turn up old 
software versions. The basic idea is to figure out the name of the 
installer file, then throw some searches out, make a guess based on the 
last modified date, and eventually install the different copies into a VM 
to verify the versions.

If the vendor doesn't provide evaluation versions, you are out of luck 
unless you can find old copies of the physical media. If you are really 
desperate, you can often find old media for sale on eBay. Whether you are 
legally allowed to install and use software you obtain this way is 
another issue entirely. I picked up all of my old Solaris media off eBay 
for less than $30 USD.

-HD



On Friday 31 March 2006 13:09, Dame Krapchev wrote:
> Since the software has bugs the developer doesn't distribute that
> version anymore. What do you do? How do you find them?