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Re: Pentesting using Vista?
From: Sat Jagat Singh <flyingdervish () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:41:42 -0700 (PDT)
I wouldn't even let my mother use Vista for word processing. I got my wife a new Vista laptop back in September and I have just now finished the second full reinstall due to Vista self-destruction. On the first occasion M$ update installed some half-baked patch in the middle of the night that caused a BSOD. Microsoft's advice: after reinstalling Windoze, don't install whatever patch caused that and shutoff automatic updates. Great. On this 2nd occasion some offending app that may be compatibility challenged locked up the whole OS to the point where a hard power-off was the only option. A complete corruption of the partition was the result. Hence, on this second reinstall, I obtained and applied XP Pro. Other than the apparent likelihood that all your work will be toast, there's also a limitation, introduced by M$ with XP SP2 and presumably still present in Vista, on the number of socket simultaneous connections. This makes it less than ideal to run Nessus on for one thing. Other vuln scanners may or may not have a similar issue. If you do want to run Nessus, Tenable has some specific configuration guidance to make it functional. I believe Cygwin works on Vista, though I haven't tested it. If you haven't used it before, I highly recommend it for interoperability of many FOSS tools designed for Linux, perl, python, ruby, etc. I use it on my XP systems. Good luck --- Leonardo Cavallari Militelli <leonardocavallari () gmail com> wrote:
Hi all, Does anyone ever used Windows Vista for pen-testing/security assessment? I just got a new laptop from company that seems to have many compatibility issues with linux distributions and miss some drivers for XP. Thanks, Leo
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Current thread:
- Pentesting using Vista? Leonardo Cavallari Militelli (Mar 20)
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? sherwyn . williams (Mar 23)
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Sat Jagat Singh (Mar 23)
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Joey Peloquin (Mar 25)
- Message not available
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Leonardo Cavallari Militelli (Mar 23)
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Vinicius Vianna (Mar 31)
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Leonardo Cavallari Militelli (Mar 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Pentesting using Vista? Yousif (Mar 23)
- RE: Pentesting using Vista? Jeremiah Cornelius (Mar 25)