[framework] Metasploit on Windows

[Pusscat]

Would these users be unable to make use of a prepackaged virtual machine on
their windows machines?


On 1/18/07 10:13 AM, "ken" <ken at klmsystems.com> wrote:

> Wow, what a thread.  Here¹s my .02:
>  
> I have been demonstrating metasploit now for nearly 2 years to students who
> are learning how to conduct pen-tests.  I will use either *nix or Windows, but
> the vast majority (somewhere close to 90%) must only use windows for their
> tests because of a company mandate or other policy. When I am conducting an
> independent pen test, and use both open source and commercial products, it¹s
> only at that time that companies don¹t care what platform I use, because they
> want the test to simulate what the hacker might be doing.
>  
> Now, to those who say that Windows users are script kiddies, where does that
> come from?  Is it that so many script kiddies do use windows?  That¹s like
> saying all non-windows users are hackers and should be jailed.  Is that where
> this discussion is leading?  I¹ve worked with governments and companies of
> many countries, and many of the fortune 100 here in the US, as well as the
> DOD, US Armed Forces, Cent Comm, State Department, and on goes the list.  I¹ve
> met 1000¹s of very skilled security specialists, those who are far from script
> kiddies, and they are windows users.   If you abandon support for windows,
> then I¹d worry that the framework would become a thing of the past, and  that
> the gap would be filled by someone else further down the road.
>  
> Please, those of you who take *nix vs. Windows as a religious ideology, let¹s
> be more broad-minded and realize that there¹s a whole world out there who can
> use this tool.  Let¹s not become elitists.
>  
> PS: I love demonstrating  metasploit ­ I demo this in our classes, online
> seminars, and it¹s featured in my video training which is used in over 200
> training centers around the world.  Abandoning windows support would cause
> this audience to abandon metasploit.  I don¹t want to see this happen.
> 


~ Puss

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