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        <title><![CDATA[Cheers, it's a training requirnment for my needs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bless HOPE for bringing DeICE into my world. I found DVL about half a year before that and started keeping it on a VM for a target box. They both do the same thing; let me bang a real blackbox without the ethical and legal issues of not owning that box.I'd classify these both as training aids or learning labs. BT is the real toolkit I keep around. It's a good thing I have my bt2 image around still also. Two stumbling blocks slowed me down with DeICE 1:- it's meant to be broken using BT2 because BT3 and BT4 dropped the wordlists for hydra, john and such. (I have the wordlist in my dictionary folder now so it's a non-issue)- cat.. freaking cat.. No problem with the heavy lifting industry security tools but I got hungup on a step because of my habit for more/less rather than cat.DeICE 1.. broken.. now on too DeICE 2. (and a review of my systems to confirm that they are not open to the same things that make the first disk breakable)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:52:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OK | thanks | wow | duh]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-269957-3035156]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The very black site: offensive-security.com (DUH!)  - emoticon not found.I probably was confusing Helix3 with BackTrack 3, as the FAQ clearly states that it will never cost anything. (Which I also remember reading long ago.)This is cool, it doesen't mess with my Feng Shui or Wi Fu. So thanks for returning my brain, O Scummy One.Neon: I'd quite forgotten DVL - I like the new version name. I'm not so heavy into these environments that I spend a lot of time with them, I just use certain tools in some various distros to fix stuff. Never tried to do serious forensics or set up a network to pen test. But I love the stuff, and learn chunks of stuff over time. DeIce looks really cool. Thanks for the info, and priming the memory pump.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:52:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[no worries.. thought you may have read something I missed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It's actually only recently that I've added the BT news feed to my daily bookmarks watching for bt4final to come out or a release date anouncement.Before that I always found it through a search though. One link leads to the main page and then links get me to the seporate download and wiki sites.hm.. now I have to go have a look-see about Helix.DVL Infectious Disease is available now also if your looking for target and training distros. I'm going to go back to pounding on it after the DeICE disks.. DeICE 1 75% done. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:43:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sorry, you can have your brain back]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was just experimenting a bit.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[The Scummy One]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:03:23 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Maybe I need to backtrack]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I couldn't find the pages I originally downloaded 3 from. (It was black. How much more black could it get? The answer is &quot;none&quot;.) I was just there a day or two ago, and it made noises about training and whatnot, but that it was not available for download.And perhaps I'm confusing it with Helix somehow.This is freaking me out. I feel like something hacked my brain.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:34:49 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I can relate. BT would have been my first grab.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-269957-3034694]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's great to be able to just boot a liveCD and copy off what I'm after.Going the other way is equally nice. I've had a few cases where an old version of Flash gets stuck on a machine; even booting in minimal &quot;safe mode&quot; leave the file locked. In a few cases it's been so bad that I've tried utilities to move/rename/delete files during the boot process before things get locked and somehow that Fing flashplayer plugin is already &quot;file locked unable to delete&quot;.A reboot with a liveCD and rm -rf /mnt/sda1/Windows/System32/Macrmedia/*I think it's around Flash7a or Flash9..One outstanding case was a laptop encrypted before I got my liveCD too it. The flash plugin file is far outside of the default location yet still locked from boot onward. The liveCD can't mount the drive in any usable way though; Truecrypt works.I started with SuperGrub only encase it was a booting issue rather than a broken OS issue.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:37:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Well, I was kind of in a hurry]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I needed the laptop now and had been putting off the reimage in the hopes of recovering those files.  If I'd had time to think about it, I'd have broken out the UBCD, gone to a prompt and cp'ed or mv'ed onto the USB drive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:04:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ill give it a look]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been using Ubuntu on a few Desktops, ill take a closer look at PCLOS though. Sounds like i nice distro. -alias]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[matthew.balthrop@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:13:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[say what?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.htmlAre they talking about closing it and going to a retail distro only?I'm an OS geek so I already have ISO archived back to when it was &quot;network security admins toolkit&quot; still. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:59:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Keep it safe and backed up!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As BackTrack is no longer freely available.(I'm sure it haunts P2P, but you never know what you are going to get.)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:11:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Supergrup]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've had to un-screwed an install with Supergrub liveCD once. It found all bootable partitions then asked which to start up. I got Mandriva back up and running then a quick visit to the draketools and it was fixed.SystemRescue is also a handy disk to have around as I believe it mounts all detectable storage automatically during boot and supports USB storage (data recovery liveCD after all).These days, I tend to just reach for my Backtrack liveCD as it's always handy. The only catch is that the USB flashdrive needs to be plugged in during boot so it can be detected and mounted when the distro mounts all other visible shares. BT.. not just one of my security tools..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:15:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[interesting]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have had no USB issues (HP machines) with PCLOS.  Several monitor issues, but no USB issues.  Oops, and a kvm issue.  the kvm works in SUSE, XP, Vista, but the keyboard cannot be found with PCLOS (belkin kvm)]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[w2ktechman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:48:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The only problem I've had with it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My corporate laptop (Latitude 630) crashed Tuesday morning and I attempted to boot to the live CD to recover some data from Monday (backup was taken Sunday!  ).PCLOS choked on the USB.  Started the USB service but hung while polling.  Let it try for an hour, then finally gave up, booted to TrueImage and restored.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:27:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PCLinuxOS Rocks!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This IS my Linux distro of choice.  Texstar and the Ripper Gang worked wonders creating this OS and it's the best implementation of the KDE desktop I've used.  I've used three other distros before I settled on PCLOS and I'll probably stick with it as long as its supported.  The only bad thing was I couldin't get it to work with my new desktop as the Nvidia chipset was too new to find any Linux driver.  It works great on my IBM A20m notebook and my AMD desktop.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[dpresley_50201@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:29:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Definitely not for a server!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[PCLinuxOS works beautifully with the original ISO packages (only). A bunch of stuff in the repos. are corrupt and remove needed dependencies when installed. Installing MySQL removes the kernel!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mckenna.terry@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:33:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[that was the one]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[here are some others on distrowatchhttp://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Gaming#distrosearch]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:35:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Types of users]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I agree with your point of view for John/Jane Q. Public who don't even know that they need to keep their anti-malware programs up-to-date. ...That is, *if* they know that they need them to *begin* with! However, the type of user I'm referencing is one &quot;who is to the point of installing Linux *and* should know enough about security in general as well as the security [features] in Linux.&quot; These types of users *should* already know that they need those passwords and *may* even have their Windoze machines set up with them as well. I do. On both my Windoze and PCLOS systems. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Betelgeuse58]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:25:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[simple, with a bit of thought]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Windows doesn't require any passwords, and people run as administrator more often than not, they are not used to the concept that admin login is only needed for admin tasks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jaqui]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:59:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Linux Gamers Live DVD]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Here ya go mate!http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[feral@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:43:36 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[PCLOS 2007 &amp; Passwords.......]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When I installed PCLOS 2007 on my Compaq Presario 1800 I was prompted to use both a &quot;Root&quot; AND &quot;Login&quot; password. I did enter a separate password for both options!Now, anyone who is to the point of installing Linux should know enough about security in general as well as the security in Linux.***QUESTION: Why would such a person *not* utilize all security options at their disposal? ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Betelgeuse58]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:23:04 -0700</pubDate>
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