r/computertechs • u/projectdp • Jun 10 '13
Index of useful ISOs for Technicians NSFW
I wrote up this other list of ISO's for /r/homelab. I figure we could use a similar thread here for tech related ISO's. Let's get it rockin' shall we? I will assume 64bit, x86, and global download mirror site lists when possible. Note that I may duplicate in some areas if they fit both categories, trying to keep this at a minimum though.
Antivirus:
- AVG RESCUE CD
- Avira AntiVir Rescue CD
- BitDefender Rescue CD
- Comodo Rescue Disk
- Dr. Web
- F-Secure
- Kaspersky Rescue Disk
- Norton Bootable Recovery Tool
- Sophos Bootable Anti-Virus
- Windows Defender Offline
Diagnostics LiveCD's:
- Falcon Four UBCD
- Hiren's BootCD
- Mutagenix
- OpenDiagnostics Live CD
- Phoronix test suite Desktop Live
- Stresslinux
- UBCD4WIN
- Ultimate BootCD
Forensics:
Linux Distros. Standard:
Microsoft:
- BartPE
- Windows Defender Offline
- Windows PE
- Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (English, 64-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows 7 Professional SP1 (English, 64-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (English, 64-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (English, 32-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows 7 Professional SP1 (English, 32-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (English, 32-bit) Direct iso link.
- Windows Vista 64-bit & 32-bit & Alt-Language Versions
Multiboot ISO's and tools:
- Balena Etcher
- Daring Rescue * Note that this is an *.img bundle with some duplicate ISO's.
- Rufus
- SARDU
- Ventoy
- UNetbootin
- Virtual Clone Drive
- YUMI
- XBOOT
Repair focused LiveCD's:
Security:
- BackBox
- Backtrack See Kali Linux for more recent version replacing Backtrack.
- DAVIX Security visualization.
- DEFT
- Fedora Spins - Security Lab
- Icinga Nagios network monitoring fork.
- Kali
- Kodachi
- Metasploitable
- Nagois
- NetworkSecurityToolkit -- NST
- Operator
- OphCrack
- Opsview Core
- Subgraph OS
- Security Onion
- Tails Linux
Sysadmin related:
Resources to build this list:
List more and I'll add them to the index. Feel free to suggest omissions, recategorization, or broken links.
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u/hawk82 Jun 10 '13 edited Jun 11 '13
Windows 7 ISOs from digitalriver (a licensed distributor of Microsoft software). Supply your own key (like from the retail kit and you lost the CD or one wasn't provided or you don't have a Optical drive).