Some of your favorite software tools?

4_lom

I'm always looking for new tools to try out. My newest favorite is inSSIDer. It gives you an "in depth" view of all wireless networks detected by your computer. I used it the other day to find a rogue WAP in our office. It's very "lightweight" and scans for signal strength in real-time.

Lampton

Desktop Support side of things here:

I have found Hiren's Boot Disk to be very useful.

For clean up, rkill, combofix, and MWBs are my go to choices.

What's the story behind the WAP?

paul78

Given the poor showing on the latest TE poll here - http://www.techexams.net/forums/lpi-rhce-sair/80311-vi-emacs.html

I feel the need to share that one of my favourite software tools is emacs

@4_lom - is there a particular class of tool that you are interested in?

Roguetadhg

UltraMon. Cause without it, I'd be lost in a sea of windows, and tabs with windows.

hiddenknight821

@paul78: You gotta accept the defeat! In that case, vi is my favorite tool.

Seriously though, I'm gonna cast my vote on Wireshark. This is the best tool yet! It amazed me when I was finally able to capture HDLC/PPP packets on the WAN interfaces in GNS3 so I can verify the IPSec communications. I can't think of a way this could be done in real life.

4_lom

Lampton wrote: »

Desktop Support side of things here:

I have found Hiren's Boot Disk to be very useful.

For clean up, rkill, combofix, and MWBs are my go to choices.

What's the story behind the WAP?

Well, we had a rather old Cisco WAP that was malfunctioning and basically causing a DOS attack on our network. After we found out it was the WAP, I completely unplugged it from the network. Also unplugged the power. So this WAP was completely shut down. Half hour later, I find out that users are still connecting to the wireless network. I was in complete shock, because the only WAP we had designated in the office was sitting on my desk, next to me, lifeless. So I'm thinking the only other possible thing is that someone bridged another WAP with the one I just decommissioned, and it's still accepting traffic. So me and a coworker fired up out laptops, walked around the office with scanners, and found that one of the developers had put a wireless router in their cubicle (without permission)....

So that was a fun 4 hours of my day

4_lom

paul78 wrote: »

Given the poor showing on the latest TE poll here - http://www.techexams.net/forums/lpi-rhce-sair/80311-vi-emacs.html

I feel the need to share that one of my favourite software tools is emacs

@4_lom - is there a particular class of tool that you are interested in?

Nothing in particular, I just like learning about new obscure tools that haven't really gone mainstream yet

4_lom

Just to let all of you know... I hoard tools like they're silver bars or something I have a 32GB thumb drive and it's nearly full... never know when I'm going to need one of them, so I just carry them all with me

the_Grinch

I'm a big fan of Auslogics Disk Defragger and Glary Utilities.

chinino

I will add Angry IP Scanner, and, of course, Google...nothing better than searching for answers

snokerpoker

These are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head.......

Sysinternals!

UBCD w/Ghost

Ccleaner

HWINFO32 & 64