Security and pen-test tool for windows users.

Security and pen-test tools for Windows users.

During my years working with IT security, I have used hundreds and hundreds of tools for penetration test and security scans. The tools and scripts have been of varying quality, and the small list I have made here, is some of the top of the line tools, according to me. This is just a fraction of all the tools out there.

Port Scanning tools
nmap (network mapping)

Processes, Files, Operating Systems, System Calls etc.
Sysinternals
Excellent tools for digging in your operating system. Monitor processes, network, files. Psmon, PsExec,
PsTools, SDelete, PsInfo, PsLoggedOn, RootkitRevealer v1.7, ShareEnum v1.6 and much more. A goldmine for IT security people. Want to know what a virus, trojan or worms moves are? Check out
http://www.sysinternals.com/ for tools.

Vulnerability scanner
NessusWX Nessus win32 client.

This is a good start. Remember, these are just tools, and you will have to know TCP/IP and how an operating system works, to get the full value out of the tools. Read the README files and documentation,
before you start.