You can see a sample
menu in Figure 5-3.We will highlight some of the tools in this chapter, but we don??™t
want this book to be tool-centric. Rather, the goal of this chapter is to help you become
comfortable with the way the BackTrack LiveCD system works and to teach you how to
customize it so that you can experiment with the tools yourself.
In addition to the comprehensive toolset, the BackTrack developers did a great job making
the distribution nice to use even as an everyday operating system. You??™ll find applications
such as Gaim, Skype, Open Office,VMWare, Firefox, editors and graphics tools, even a
calculator. If you haven??™t used Linux in several years, you might be surprised by how usable
it has become. BackTrack 2.0 has further evolved into a very polished release with niceties
like Gaim supporting SSL, Skype supporting ALSA, ATI drivers being modularized, the
VMWare tools module being integrated into the image, and so on. On the security side,
everything just works: One-click Snort setup, Kismet with GPS support and
autoconfiguration, unicornscan pgsql support, a db_autopwn setup script, and one-click
options to start/stop the web server, ssh server, vnc server, database server, and tftp server.
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