Re: Windows Distro

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfernandez () germinus com>]

Jason T. Hallahan wrote:

> Hello and good day,
>
> I was wondering... is there anything in the Microsoft Windows or Apple
> OS X world resembling Auditor, Knoppix STD, or another security
> distribution?

As for the Microsoft world, for one, have not seen any. The Windows 
EULA forbids this kind of stuff so I don't believe you'll find it, 
unless Microsoft himself develops a live-CD like or somebody risks 
legal action from Microsoft by putting up a live-CD version of its OS.

The closest I've seen is Windows Internal's Administrator Pack [1] or 
Recovery Manager [2], which uses ERD Commander (a Windows-like 
interface). But those are more oriented towards recovery of 
Windows-based systems so fall more on the field of forensic-like 
tools. They include the excellent (free, as in beer) tools by Mark 
Russinovich and available at www.sysinternals.com as well as many 
other non-free tools.

Regards

Javier


[1] http://www.winternals.com/Products/AdministratorsPak/
[2] http://www.winternals.com/Products/RecoveryManager/