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06 Sep 2006 | David Nielson, Assistant Editor

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Metasploit Framework
NetBios Auditing Tool
Process Explorer
HijackThis
Winfingerprint
RainbowCrack
Ophcrack

Metasploit Framework
The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing and using exploit code.
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NetBios Auditing Tool
Use this tool to crack passwords on Windows network shares.
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Process Explorer
Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in.
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HijackThis
HijackThis is a tool that lists all installed browser add-on, buttons, startup items and allows you to inspect, and optionally remove selected items. The program can create a backup of your original settings and also ignore selected items. Additional features include a simple list of all startup items, default start page, online updates and more. Intended for advanced users.
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Winfingerprint
This Windows enumeration tool can ferret out patch levels, NetBIOS information, user information, and more.
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RainbowCrack
RainbowCrack is a general purpose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. In short, the RainbowCrack tool is a hash cracker. a time-memory trade-off cracker can be hundreds of times faster than a brute force cracker, with the help of precomputed tables.
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Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
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