14 DAY TRIAL // As of May 4th, 2012, a new version of the popular Sysinternals Suite created by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell back in 1996 was made available for download.
The new version of the suite comes with updates for a series of utilities, including Autoruns, now up to version 11.3, LiveKd, updated to 5.2 and Strings, available for download as version 2.5.
For those out of the loop, we should note that the Sysinternals Suite was created as a collection of tools meant to provide IT Pro and developers with the possibility to manage, troubleshoot and diagnose their Windows systems and applications.
Updates for the various utilities included in the package are being delivered on a regular basis, in an attempt to solve various issues that might appear with these applications, or to add new functionality to them.
The latest flavor of the Suite brings along the following changes:
Autoruns v11.3 - This update to Autoruns, a utility that shows the executables, drivers, and DLLs configured to autostart, adds several new autostart locations, sets a file association for its log file extension, reports the target of Rundll32 and other host executables, and fixes several bugs.
LiveKd v5.2 - LiveKd, a command-line utility for performing live read-only debugging of the local system and virtual machines, now includes an option that has it generate a fully-consistent kernel dump file of a running system.
Strings v2.5 - Strings, a command-line utility that dumps a file’s printable UNICODE and ASCII strings, adds an option to specify the starting offset in the file from where it will scan for strings.
Additionally, Mark Russinovich announced the availability of Trojan Horse, his sequel to Zero Day. The book went up for preorder, and users can also have a look at a trailer released for it.
“The sequel to Mark’s popular cyberthriller Zero Day is now available for pre-order. Check out the video trailer, learn more about Jeff Aiken’s fight against cyber-espionage on a global scale, and preorder your hard cover or ebook copy today at the Trojan Horse web site,” a post on the Sysinternals blog reads.
Those who are interested only in the latest updates packed inside the Sysinternal Suite will find the new release available for download from Softpedia as well, via this link.