Must have tools

Hirens Boot CD http://www.warezfreaks.com/downloads.php?id=15926

My picks for windows

IDS :

Snort http://www.snort.org

Sniffer :

Ethereal http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/

Vulnerability Scanner :

Nessus http://www.nessus.org/ (The windows version is available for 30 days trial)

GFI Languard http://www.gfi.com/downloads/downloads.asp?pid=8&lid=1

Integrity Checker

Tripwire http://www.tripwire.com/

Yee, it is great idea ;)

http://pricelessware.org/
http://snapfiles.com/

http://bootdisk.com/

http://www.filesearching.com/

OK


http://wilderssecurity.com

Anything by "javacool" like Spyware Blaster, Spywareguard, Browser Hijack Blaster

http://www.winpatrol.com

"WinPatrol" nice all round level 2 defence suite now at release 6.5 (so get the update if you already have it!)

http://www.swatit.org

"SwatIT" is another antispy/trojan offering

http://www.analogx.com

"Script Defender"............stops scripts running from where they should not

Just a few of my favourites

EDIT: I found the other cigarette packet!

http://keir.net/software.html

"Scrip Trap" another script interceptor with an interface to your AV (nice touch)
"BDE Remove 1.04" Tidies up Kazaa rubbish.

http://www.bitdefender.com/

Free AV for windows AND *nix
Security tools for "popular" P2P applications

http://www.webattack.com/get/hostadmin.html

Nice GUI to manage you Windows "hosts" folder

And for the really paranoid:

http://www.runtimeware.com

"Sentinel" by Derek de Oliveira

A "checksummer" with a nice GUI and the ability to autolaunch your AV

Cheers

Thanks for all of the links, now i just gotta take a week outta my life and learn to use all these.

Thanks again
Boogymantroy

SCANNERS

NMap - http://www.insecure.org
SuperScan - http://www.foundstone.com

Administrative tools and some other Network ones:

http://www.glocksoft.com

Ethereal, a packet sniffer: http://www.ethereal.com/
Windump: http://windump.polito.it/
TCPDump (For *NIX): http://www.tcpdump.org/
Kerio Personal Firewall (Free Personal Firewall for Windows): http://www.kerio.com
Knoppix Linux (Live Linux CD): http://www.knoppix.org
Cheers,
cgkanchi

I know it has been mentioned before but not here so i would just like to add to it:
www.freeprogrammingrecources.com
www.majorgeeks.com
they include everything :D

and BTW: i think this is great cause everyone gets to post their thing which they think might help someone out...noobs in this case but here is also some stuff for more advanced
great thread ;)

Ultimate Boot CD- fixed two computers that were supposed to be unrepairable using the tools on the cd http://www.ultimatebootcd.com