Well, I decided to tinker a bit with some of this stuff. Was gonna set up a test computer and load it up with all the software I use on mine to test my security, using Metaploit to see if I could break in. Well seein as this is my first time doing anything like this I was suprised to find while installing AVG detected a trojan, call me a noob lol. Ok, I'm wondering if this was just a payload they want YOU to use while messing with it or did I get a tampered version with a trojan installed onto it? kinda freaked me out seeing as I just built this computer and it's my baby lol. Any help is welcomed! Thanks again. (I uninstalled promptly lol, better safe then sorry for me. I'll hook up a hunk of junk system I have layin around for that.)

Yep, that's where I got it from. I figured that was the reason, but I wanted to double check. Thanks 

i general most hack tools would be considered malware and trojans for the reason that if YOU didnt install them, you would want to know they are on your box. make sense?

To avoid something like that in the future, you could set them up in a virtual PC. All of my toys are there along with a target. This way, I can always reset the machine without damaging my host system. There are a couple of freebee vm products available like VMWare Server and MS VirtualPC. Both are available directly from the vendors. I will say though, that VirtualPC does not play well with Linux variants.