| CompTIA Protocols & Ports PDF |
A quick reference for the protocols and their ports on the CompTIA trifecta certs! |
| CPUID’s CPU-Z |
The utility to find out the specs of the CPU on your system.
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| CPUID’s HWMonitor |
Great little program that gives you a quick break down of your system’s temperature and other sensors. From the maker of CPU-Z.
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| Igor Pavlov’s 7-Zip |
A free, open-source utility that unzips almost everything you can through at it. I install it on all my systems.
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| Malwarebytes Free |
When you need to scrub a machine of some nasty malware, this utility will help you get the job done.
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| Memtest86+ |
The live CD memory tester. This tool boots from a CD and gives your RAM a workout looking for problems that can cause errors such as BSODs and data coruption.
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| Microsoft’s Sysinternals Utilities |
The definitive collection of utilities to discover and fix almost anything going on with Windows. My personal favorite is Process Explorer.
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| Gnome Partition Editor |
Gnome Partition Editor, or GParted, is another live CD that will enable you to resize and repartition your hard drive without reformating. Make sure you have a backup before using this or any paritioning tool on a system you care about.
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| Wireshark |
Everyone should have this famous protocol analyzer in their toolbox.
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| VirtualBox |
The freeware VM that’s great for getting your feet wet with virtualization.
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| Rufus |
When I need to make a bootable thumb drive this is my goto utility
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| Versacrypt |
Bitlocker is great if you have the right version of Windows, a TPM chip and want to encrypt an entire drive. For those who don’t, there is Versacrypt.
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| Nmap |
The best network security scanner out there! (Included in Kali distro)
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| Metasploit |
The number one penetration testing framework (Included in Kali distro)
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| OpenHash Tab |
OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties.
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| Kali Linux |
The popular security-centric Linux distro. Contains many of the tools listed here
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