UPDATE TO THIS ARTICLE CAN BE FOUND HERE - Freeware Engineers Toolkit

This is a list of software that I carry on my portable thumbdrive (1Gb). Almost all of it is Freeware (any exceptions are noted) and most of it is Open Source too.

The flashkey has an autorun.inf to start PStart on double click, or on the right click menu either open explorer or mount a Truecrypt archive (to protect customer data). Lastly the key is bootable with Acronis True Image V9



Installations for PC's

Applications - Working directly off drive

Diagnostics & Removal - Working directly from drive



Dependency Walker - scans any Windows module and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules



DiskMon - logs and displays all hard disk activity



Filemon - displays file system activity on a system in real-time

PortMon - displays all serial and parallel port activity



Process Explorer - shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded



Pstools - SysInternals 'Resource Kit'



RegMon - Real-time Registry monitoring utility



TCPView - detailed listings of all TCP and UDP endpoints on your system. Graphical netstat



TokenMon - monitors and displays a variety of security-related activity taking place on a system



Winobj - display information on the NT Object Manager's name space



Norton Removal Tool - Norton can be stubborn to remove at times.

autoruns - show all auto-starting locations



HijackThis

"remove msn messenger.cmd" - simply RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove



RootkitRevealer - advanced rootkit detection utility



WinsockXPFix - simple winsock fix. i don't know if it's just netsh int ip reset but it does work.



Toolkit - Working directly off drive

Commercial Installations

All the rest of these are executables working directly off the drive as well.

Only two, but I have to have them.

Acronis True Image V9 - Great HDD imaging utility.



NOD32 - The only antivirus we recommend



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