Can you use a Knoppix live CD to hack a supposedly secure computer?  How can you ensure security?
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To answer your questions,\n\n1) Can you use a Knoppix live CD to hack a supposedly secure computer?\n\nSimply put, yes.\n\n2) How can I protect my laptop against such an attack?\n\nSome basic physical security steps would be\n-Take it with you.  If you can't do that, then ..\n-Lock it in your desk, file cabinet, office, etc\n-If you can't do that, then lock it in someone else's.\n\nSome other technical security steps\n(provided that these are allowed by company policy)\n-Remove the CD Drive and Floppy as possible boot disks in the bios setup\n-Then password protect the bios.\n\n3) Would the administrator of my network even be able to detect such a hack?\n\nNo, not if done correctly.  A good forensic investigator (or hacker) can use a boot CD with an OS like Knoppix that can bypass Windows security and NTFS permissions.  The forensic OS is booted, the computers partitions are mounted as read only, and the necessary data can be captured usually using netcat or cryptcat to send a binary image of the disks or partitions to a remote location for later investigation.\n\nThere would be absolutely no trace on the hard disk or event logs of any of the activity EXCEPT that the system had been rebooted to boot the forensic OS CD.  However, just because there's a note in the system event log that the system went down and eventually came back up does not in any way indicate that a forensic image was taken.
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Yes:\nhttp://www.funponsel.com/blog/archives/2005/08/06/how-to-bypass-windows-genuine-advantage-check-on-windows-xp/
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What kind of hacking are we talking about? Computer or with an axe?
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Here you have some:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/security.htm
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Version 3.1 is really old.  But this FAQ might help you:\nhttp://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Using_FAQ#File_transfer_between_Knoppix_and_Windows:
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Yes but you have to hack it and illegally pirate it ;-)\n\n-- Not recommended.
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The most effective way to prevent software theft is to make software people do not want to steal.  Alas, this is not a profitable venture.\n\nGenerally, it costs more to keep the crackers out than you gain from keeping them out.  Your best bet is to use a simple serial number type solution.  Almost any solution you use can be broken by just making copies of the CD and a CD key.  CD ISOs (digital copies of CDs) can easily be produced and copied onto CDs by pirates.  There are tricks to prevent this but most of them will cause a few legitimate customers to find that your CDs won't work on their systems.  Many of the techniques used to prevent software theft anger the legitimate users.
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Currently running SuSE 10.0 on my main desktop and my laptop.  I've used Mandrake and Redhat previously.\n\nKnoppix (4.0.2 is the latest).  I keep a bootable Knoppix CD in my desk at work, another at home, and another in my briefcase.  It's amazing tool for recovering corrupted systems.  "Knoppix Hacks" contains instructions for several fixes.
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You can either run a hacked (and most likely illegally obtained) copy of Mac OSX built for X86 (the cpu architechture of PCs and upcoming as-of-yet-unreleased Macs), or you can run a PowerPC emulator on your PC, such as PearPC: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ and install Mac OSX using your legally-bought (or not...your call) install media.
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You can try these products. Knoppix STD, UBCD, Penguin Sleuth. each of these are Open Source and Free download forensic live discs with password cracker programs. Helix is another source.\n\nYou can also purchase a physical key logger.\nAlso, if the property being used is your computer you have the absolute right to control what happens to it, who uses it, and how you operate it. It is your property. How you use the information is different.\n\nFor the individual who cried about the Law- here: Try to remember that as long as one person, who owns the means of communication, knows about the "bugging" it is legal.\nWhen you use someone else's computer, phone, cellphone, satellite Server, et cetera, you are using their property not yours.\n\nIf the man wanted security he would go home, use a live disc on a mac machine filtered through a linux machine filtered through a bsd server using blowfish and md5 encryption on an anonymous server and would also use TOR.
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Ha! How can they do that, unless you have got professional hackers for your pals?
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there is no way you can totally secure a CD against copying.\n\nThe problem is that you will have to distribute the mechanism to decrypt or otherwise run the CD with the CD itself or it will be useless. And so it can be broken.\n\nThink of it as locking your door and then hiding the key under the doormat and putting a note on the door telling people the key is under the doormat.
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scan  in safemode with antivirus & antispyware
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hmm! i think best way is to use a hacksaw. thanks for the 10 pts
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in order to secure ur pc:\n\nuse:\n\nspybot search and destroy\n\nzone alarm firewall\n\nantivir presonal edition \n\nand \n\nchange ur browser to Opera or Firefox..........\n\nsearch in google for all the above softwares
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See if you can get someone to burn you a Knoppix CD (linux). \n\nIt will boot and run off the CD and allow you to read your hard drive and copy files off of it (to another CD burner, computer on the network, flash drive or whatever).\n\nAfter that, you can reformat or replace the drive and install windows (or linux) and copy your files back.
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Give Knoppix or DSL (Damn Small Linux) a try.  They're basically the same OS but you can put DSL on a usb drive and boot from that on most newer computers.  I've never tried the SUSE live cd but I've always liked SUSE on my laptops.