anyone have issues with metasploit not working after update?
i'm not blaming the script or anything :) i just had metasploit break twice on the clean vmware image i downloaded from the backtrack...

the link to /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch is broken in my install of BT5 R1 GNOME 32 VM - does this apply to all the BT5R1 images?

metacom: thank you for that last post - after executing the ruby config command and reinstalling postgres using gem I finally got it working.

big thanks to sickness and fnord0 as well!

thank you for the fast reply and the great work - keep it up :)

looking forward to the next update ;)

EDIT:

I'm probably missing something completely obvious (again) but I get an error when...

how do I set the ID used for ettercap?

I noticed that is a prerequisite in the easy-creds.sh file but I'm not sure where in etter.conf this setting is made..

Excellent work sicness, thank you.
4.4 works fine here as well

Thanks Dudeman - I will watch this lesson tomorrow - seems pretty interesting!

Thanks, Its not our intention to keep infected computers online constantly.
However, in order for us to keep up with the updates distributed to the malware, and to track IP adresses affiliated with...

I know this question goes beyond the scope of this subforum and possibly the entire forum ( I miss the old Specialist subforum :) ) but I decided to give it a shot, if this belongs in a completely...

Good points indeed, come to think of it - such a sub forum could possibly attract members with no particular interest in IT security but who only needed a place for "support" and to ask questions...

Thanks for your reply.

I can see reasons for both having, and not having such a sub-forum so I understand the decision of locking the old forum.

However, many of the users on this particular...

I apologize if this is the wrong sub forum to approach this subject, but since I cannot seem to post new threads in the old "general IT discussion forum" I was just wondering if there are any plans...

the fonts in my firefox are huge!
the file, edit, view menu etc have size 14+ fonts

i tried edit > preferences > content > fonts & colours and setting the default size lower but this only worked...

thanks i renamed them and it turned out i had no need for them...

nice and easy upgrade, thank you very much for this one :)

do you know if the ubuntuzilla .deb package required for the cron job, or can i delete this one after the initial install?

EDIT: I...

yep, I guess its placed where it belongs now :)

great Carlin quote by the way, r.i.p to the king

EDIT:

for some reason the sudo /etc/init.d/wicd start did not work, when running the...

thanks, this one helped me out as well :)

I\m having the same issues with a fresh install of BT4 pre final but the fix that worked for SL43R didn't help me out >&

iwconfig returns the following:



so i'm guessing its not an issue...

hmmm :) great suggestion .. i would love a dedicated time lapse camera but I've been wanting those time lapses in pretty high def as well .. 5 MP might be to small for me ....

but thanks a lot,...

Great link, thanks! Thats definitely worth a look but like the forum post said, you should be a bit restrictive when it is unknown executeables from an unknown russian hacker ;)

As for the CHDK,...

thanks for the replies folks!

I was guessing that Verizon or AT&T would be the reccomendations, I guess these have the best data coverage?

I will check out the different offers they have, seing...

Me and a couple of friends are planning to rent a RV and take a 6 week long road trip through the US next summer.

But coming from Norway we have no idea of what mobile broadband providers have the...

wow, I have even visited that page just a little while ago but somehow managed to completely miss any of the info regarding the KDE bug and the fix ... i guess its a bot too late for me..

well,...

I did a little messing around on my BT4 persisten USB install today and after a while I noticed that the Backtrack folder from the KDE menu had been reduced to only two folders: Information Gathering...

ah, that explains quite a bit..

ok i did a new scan now without -PN and it gave an accurate number of hosts being up so I guess thats solved.. for my part at least..


when it comes to the...