Today I am proud to announce the final version of Protech, a Linux distribution created especially for security professionals and programmers. Protech is powered by the lightweight Fluxbox window manager and is based on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).



As other Ubuntu-based distributions, Protech is a Live CD that you can test just by burning the ISO image onto a blank CD and booting your PC from it. The boot options are the same as those from Ubuntu Linux, the only difference being the nice logo from Protech. The CD starts pretty fast, and without any other introduction you will enter the main desktop, which has an astonishing wallpaper (as you can see in the screenshots below).



First thing I've noticed is the Opera link (first position) in the right click desktop menu, very smart choice for a quick access to a powerful Internet browser. It looks like Opera was chosen over Firefox, which is not even installed. Not only that, but Opera comes with Tor (the online anonymity tool) and Privoxy (a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for privacy protection).

Besides many updated tools, the final version of Protech has added support for many wireless-cards, printing and scanning support, a new Fluxbox version with a complete re-design of look and feel and a new kernel (2.6.20.16). Other changes compared to the beta version are:

￭ Corrected bug Tor not working in Browser
￭ Corrected bug on installer
￭ Corrected bug on boot (usplash)
￭ General minor bugs eliminated
￭ Synaptic Package Manager added

Protech's goal is to give security professionals and programmers the tools they need. Therefore, Protech comes with many network security related applications, such as:

Aquiring Tools: ￭ DCFLDD, DD, DD_Rescue

Cisco: ￭ Yersinia, Asleap, Cisco Exploiter

Database: ￭ Blind SQL Injection, Hackerstorm, HTTP SQL Bruteforce, Metacoretex, SQL Inject

Enumeration:

DNS: ￭ Dig, DNS Enum, DNSWalk, Host
Google: ￭ Finger Google, Google Mail Enum, Google Search, GooScan
Misc: ￭ p0f
Samba: ￭ NBTScan, Samba Enum
SMTP: ￭ Relay Scanner, SMTP Vrfy
SNMP: ￭ SNMP Enum: SNMPget, SNMPset, SNMPwalk
WWW: ￭ ISR Forms, List URLs, Paros Proxy



Exploits: ￭ Exploit Tree, Metasploit Framework 3, Milw0rm

Forensics:

Analisys: ￭ Autospy
File Carving: ￭ Foremost

Fuzzers: ￭ Bed, Clfuzz, Pirana

Honeypot: ￭ Labrea, Honeyd, Tinyhoneypot

Oracle: ￭ Metacoretex, OAT

Password Attacks:

Offline: ￭ Rainbow Crack, Hash Colision, John, Ophcrack, Samdump2
Online: ￭ Hydra, Medusa, THC PPTP



Rootkit: ￭ rkhunter, chkrootkit

Sandbox: ￭ Plash

Scanners:

Port Scanners: ￭ Amap, Nmap, Onesistyone
VPN Scanners: ￭ IKE Scan, PSK Crack
Vulnerability ￭ Scanners: Nikto (Nessus requires manual install)

Sniffers: ￭ Ettercap, Driftnet, Dsniff, Filesnarf, SSHMITM, Msgsnarf, Mailsnarf, SShow, URLsnarf, Wireshark



Spoofing: ￭ Ettercap, Yersinia, ARSpoof, DNSSpoof, Etherwake, Fragrouter,
Fragroute, Icmpush

System Hardening: ￭ Bastille

Tunelling: ￭ Cryptcat, OpenVPN

Wireless:

Analysis: ￭ Kismet / Gkismet
AP Fakers: ￭ FakeAP, Hotspotter
Cracking: ￭ Aircrack, Cowpatty, Aircrack-ptw, Airsnort
Packet Forge: ￭ Aireplay

Protech also contains applications for daily tasks:

Web browsers: ￭ Opera, w3m (console browser)

File manager: ￭ Thunar

Search software: ￭ Catfish

Text editors: ￭ Mousepad, Vim, Nano

Multimedia: ￭ Audacious, Mplayer, Gnomebaker



Network: ￭ XAMPP, Hamachi, Ndiswrapper (GUI), AutoScan, Hybrid-Share, Wicd (Network Manager), Network Tools, Gftp, Pidgin, telnet, Remote Desktop, Samba (pyNeighbourhood), OpenVNC, VNCviewer

Programming: ￭ Python2.5, Emacs22 (gtk2) , Anjuta

System tools: ￭ Printer / Scanner manager, Htop, Iftop, Startup Manager (SUM),
Ntfs-Config, Gparted, Synaptic, Screenlocker (alock), Fluxbox Menu Editor



Other tools: ￭ ParolaPass, Calculator, GPSdrive, Xpdf, Xarchiver

In conclusion, Protech has the looks and the muscles to give you (as a security professional) all the tools you need in order to achieve your goals. Download Protech right now from Softpedia. Have a look at more screenshots of Protech ONE: