make my windows box report as a *NIX box

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Originally posted here by White Scorpion
a little expensive though.

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yup - i agree, it's expensive. the product is for enterprise uses.

i posted to point out that there are products out there that will do it.

i think i have seen this products trial version available somewhere before. i wonder how hard it is to analyze how the product does what it does and then try to replicate it.

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i think i have seen this products trial version available somewhere before. i wonder how hard it is to analyze how the product does what it does and then try to replicate it.

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that wouldn't be so hard, all you need to do if monitor traffic, and understand what it is.
also you should need a database which contains the signatures of the specific OS's.

but you still would have the same problem as the discussing we were talking about, if there exists a program that can do this, you can also do it manually, so i don't believe this program can detect the OS on any computer, otherwise it would be all over the news and they would have been loaded with money due to the sales, since then they would have created the ultimate hacking tool!