Excellent.

Hi dva,

Welcome to EH-Net! Good to see you already taking advantage of the great wealth of knowledge that the members here love to share. And we hope you continue to contribute as well

As for your mIRC connecting... Are you able to connect to the server? Make sure you type the server name correctly, and use port 6667 (or 6697 for SSL if it's supported; not sure). Once you're connected and you see the MOTD and such, you'll need to type the following command to join that channel (chat room):


That will open a new tab into that channel (make sure you put a space between '/join' and '#offsec') and you'll probably see '@muts' and '@ziplock' hanging out in there (they're almost always there). The '@' in front of their name means that they are a channel operator (channel moderation abilities).

Any other problems, feel free to post! Hope you enjoy the course as well. I thought it was very well done and provided a great overview of some of the very useful tools included with BackTrack.

There's no need to Google for Linux commands (well you can if you really want). There's a one-stop-shop for learning Linux commands at LinuxCommand.org.

Great!!!, Thanks. I like that; will go with this one then...



Thanks again.
Sure we'll meet on IRC, my nick is the same one I'm using here: dva. I like your idea using IS ID as a nick

It's definitely a good course if 1) You're interested in using BackTrack 2) You're somewhat new to BackTrack and aren't familiar with many of the tools.

If you're already pretty competent with using BackTrack, then you could probably skip this course and wait until the next one comes out. But if you fall into the 2 categories above, then yes, it's a great course.

It is different from the CEH in that it only covers the use of BackTrack and the tools included within. The objective is the same: ethical hacking.

Hope that helps

Hey dva, looks like we'll be classmates!

kcirtap, have you decided to join us in this round?  To answer one of your questions, I'll be funding this myself, as I do with most of my training.  Usually, I do self-study, as it's what I can afford.  But, with this type of tool, instructor-led is the best route - for me, so it was worth it to sign up.

I would like to hear from someone that has completed the course. From the demo video it seems to be a decent course.