Along with those mentioned I've currently playing with Ketarin - to keep them all up to date. http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/
Sysinternals + combofix + spybot + malwarebytes + anything from pirisoft (defraggler, ccleaner, recuva), or nirsoft There are some ketarin lists out there full of tools for recovery, I keep them all on a USB stick with the Microsoft Diagnostic and Recovery Toolkit on it (win 2008R2 version). Mike From: Rick Berry [mailto:rbe...@elevativenetworks.com] Sent: 03 August 2009 5:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Favorite Tools Here's one of my favorites, heh. Torx too! (damn you HP) 20-in-1 Telescoping Magnetic Screwdriver http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0206265 From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:cbusitl...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Favorite Tools I am always looking for cool new tools to add to my tool bag that I take with me to clients. Here is a list of some of my most used tools. If you have some tools that you use a lot please share. Thanks. SpinRite Boot CD - Hard Disk recovery tool http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm GParted Live - Resize partitions http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php Knoppix 5.11 - Live linux boot CD with a ton of tools. http://www.knoppix.net/ UBCD for Windows - Run windows xp from a CD. Has a ton of tools http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Offline NT Password & Registry Editor - Boot CD that can change local account passwords http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Kon-Boot - Log into any local or domain account on a pc without a password. Very cool tool. http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ Acronis True Image with Universal Restore - Disk Imaging tool http://www.acronis.com/ HDClone Pro - Hard Drive cloning tool http://www.hdclone.com/ Malwarebytes - Anti-Virus/Malware http://www.malwarebytes.org/ VIPRE Rescue - Anti-Virus/Malware http://live.sunbeltsoftware.com/ JKDefrag-3.36/MyDefrag-4.0 - Hard Drive Defrag program http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ Sysinternals - An sysadmin's best friend http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx Putty - Telnet/SSH Client http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ nmap - Security/Port scanner http://nmap.org/ Superscan 3.0 - fast little port scanner. A quick way to tell whats on the network. http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/superscan3.htm Wireshark - sniffer http://www.wireshark.org/ Lua BugLight - For finding out where a program hangs with it run under restricted mode. http://blogs.msdn.com/aaron_margosis/archive/2006/08/07/LuaBuglight.aspx Belarc Advisor - Audits installed software, list keys, hardware, Microsoft patches, ect and generates a report. *** this tool is for home use only according to their website **** http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html DBAN - Securely wipes hard drives to DOD standards http://www.dban.org/ Virtual Box - Run Virtual Machines. I use it to run everything from Windows 95 to Windows 7, and Ubuntu. What's best is it has 3D support for windows and Linux so it's functional and pretty. http://www.virtualbox.org/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
