Re: OT: Sysinternals Live tools

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Re: OT: Sysinternals Live tools
On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 21:28 -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> Ryan Rix wrote:
> > For those of you who are responsible for administrating Windows
> > systems, Sysinternals puts all of their tools on a samba share so
> > that anyone in quick need of them can access them:
> >
> > "Sysinternals Live
> > Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute
> > Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and
> > manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live
> > path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as
> > http://live.sysinternals.com/<toolname> or \\live.sysinternals.com
> > \tools\<toolname>.
> >
> > You can view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a
> > browser at http://live.sysinternals.com."
> >
> > pretty cool of them imo.
> >
> > Also, the http page there at the end provides a nice easy portal to
> > download all their exe's at once ;)
> >
> >
> >
> That is cool. Although, a SMB share exposed to the internet...I wonder
> how many exploit attempts per day they receive!

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probably less than you think because many providers block netbios
connections on their routers

My understanding is that SysInternals was purchased by Microsoft so
perhaps they are conducting some kind of experiment.

Craig


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