Essential Tools

Santa Claus brought me a 1Gb USB flash drive. I figure since I have 1Gb of space I can carry in my pocket, I need to put something useful on it.

So- what would you put on it? What tools would you consider essential or have you found handy in the past?

The new adaware personal se, a clean av prog, fdisk and related utilities to setup a fresh install.

There's several that are obvious (Nmap, fport, etc.), but you should consider install files such as spyware removal tools (AdAware, Spybot), personal firewalls, AV solutions (free or demos), system utilities (reg cleaners, enhancers, etc.), and so forth and so on. You never know when you'll be at someone's house and having some of those tools could come in handy...

With 1GB of space, you've got all kinds of possibilites...

Tools I carry on either my pen drive or on cd with me are:

TCPview
IPscan
firefox
treesize pro
ftp server
ftp client
winrar, winzip
win 98, 2k boot disk images
Stinger
aboutbuster
spybot
adawarese
hijackthis
cwshredder
winsock fix
new.net removal
lspfix
kazaabegone
belarc advisor (never know when I need keys or something about a system)
ccleaner
some various desktops
copy of my resume (you never know)
windows remote desktop
guide on how to wire cat 5 since I never remember the schemes
an IRC client
drivers for some common linksys wireless cards
firmware for some common linksys stuff
cmd.exe
netstumbler
google toolbar
boingo (replacement for factory wireless clients for win 9x and 2k machines)
divx codecs, never know when Ill need them
wmp
winamp
Kerio, kapernsky (pick your flavor)

Thats what i carry, has come in handy more than once.

Since everyone pretty much covered almost all my favorites, I only have two left:

1. procexp
2. a Hex editor

kurt

Uh, I vote for Knoppix with all your needed tools...

http://www.bootdisk.info/articles.php?action=show&id=13

PUTTY!!!!
gpg
wget
unrar
gunzip
tar
unzip
lads
vncviewer
Azureus (installed)
Firefox (Installed)
Xchat (Installed)
Miranda (Installed)
Winamp (Installed)
forceaspi
klite codec pack
cat
dd
snort
nc
md5sum
cygwin
Damn Small Linux iso
aircrack
a handful of applictation/updates for computers I have to fix
a few fun apps :D
and a bit mentioned above

Here's my list from my security toolkit. These are all Windows-based. I'm continually adding to it but here's current state today.


TOOLS:

SpyBot Search & Destroy [installer]
Adaware SE Personal edition [installer]
CWShredder
HijackThis [standalone]
BHODemon
SpywareBlaster [installer]
SpywareGuard [installer]
Windows 2000 Resource Kit Utilities [standalone]
MD5SUM for Windows [standalone]
ZoneAlarm free [installer]
PasswordSafe [standalone]
ScripTrap
Etheral [installer]
Winpcap [installer]
SuperScan [standalone]
WotWeb [standalone]
OpenPorts [standalone]
TCPView [standalone]
TDIMon
PortExporer-byDiamondCS [installer]
PrcView [standalone]
ProcessExplorer-SysInt [installer]
PSKILL by SystemInternals [standalone]
PSLIST by SystemInternals [standalone]
iehistory-gui [standalone]
Trojan Defense Suite (TDS3) [installer]
WGET [standalone]
Curl [standalone]
Achilles [standalone]
NTLAST [standalone]
Founstone toolkit [standalone]
WinPatrol [installer]
NetCat [standalone]
PSEXEC [standalone]
VNC Server [installer]
VNC Viewers (UltraVNC, TridiaVNC, RealVNC) [standalone]
Shed [standalone]
Netstumbler [installer]
AVG Free anti-virus [installer]
CookieView [standalone]
Pasco [standalone]
Knoppix LIVE CDs (separate CDs): Knoppix original, Helix, Penguin Sleuth Kit, Phlak, Live Defender


REFERENCES:

List of security websites
Startup-Apps-LIST-by-sysinfo-org_files (process reference)
Task-List-Programs-by-answersthatwork_files (process reference)


Let me know if need more info about these.