GEEK TOOLS

This is just a bunch of technical tools that I think many network and computer professionals may find useful. Mostly they are simple Windows 2000 tools; this is in no way meant to be a comprehensive or high-end list of tools (espescially not the security tools), but rather a set of quick and easy things that can be used on your system and your network.

• Basic Tools | Office And Multimedia Tools | Security Tools
  • Shared Libraries and Interpreters (needed by some of the tools listed)
    • Java
    • ActivePerl - Allows you to run Perl under Win2k
    • Winpcap - A sniffer library used by many programs
    • Cygwin - Allows you to use a Windows installation like a *NIX machine (apps must be recompiled, but it comes with gcc)
  • Interface Enhancements
    • ObjectDock - An OSX-like graphical toolbar for PCs
  • General System Utilities
    • SpaceMonger - A nice graphical representation of drive space usage
    • TFTPD32 - Primarily a TFTP server but also does DHCP & Syslog
    • CDex - An excellent CD track ripper
    • Metapad - A text editor that handles UNIX-style carriage returns and can handle large files, yet is almost as simple as Notepad
    • Crimson Editor - Very good at formatting and keeping line numbers, has format templates available for most scripting/programming languages and many configuration files
  • Terminal Clients
    • Tera Term - An excellent VT100 & Telnet terminal
    • PuTTY - An SSH & Telnet client
• Packet Sniffers
• Ethereal (uses winpcap) - Very good translation of frame details into understandable explanations
• Ettercap (uses winpcap) - Can do ARP spoofing to bypass control of traffic by switches
• Programming/Compiling
  • Open Watcom - A good C/C++ compiler with libraries
• Inventory
  • Belarc Advisor - Gives you all the details you could ever possibly want on your PC, including keys and hardware serial numbers.