Hi, i'm studing for the CEH, as you may know, and at the moment I am building a windows based attack machine and later a linux based attack machine.

I realize that many of the tools discussed in CEH are designed for use on or against older systems, but I was wondering if anyone can point me to a list of free tools for each phase of the hacking process, for windows, and then for linux.

Until now, I have been going through my videos and noting and downloading as I come across them, but it seems as though with some phases, free tools are not listed, or are not ported to windows.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Backtrack contains just about all the free Linux tools available. Just browse the /pentest directory and you will get close to 300 free tools, all grouped in their specific category.

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/