REMnux : Distro for Malware Analyst

REMnux is another pentesting OS that you would like to have in your arsenal. Basically, it aids investigating malwares, so it's a very handy OS for malware analysts for reverse engineering malicious piece of software. The distribution is based on Ubuntu. Along with analysing malwares, it can also assist analyzing IRC bots, network monitoring, javascript deobfuscation, analyzing shellcode, memory forensics etc.

Gnacktrack = [Gnome + BackTrack]

There is a new penetration testing Live CD in the market. It's called GnackTrack,  made solely for the Gnome lovers. GnacktrackR3 is based on Ubuntu 10.10. There are other penetration testing Live CD like BackTrack, DVL etc. BackTrack is the most well known name with in penetration testing community. Gnacktrack sounds like Backtrack but it's based on Gnome.
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