

Installing straight to your hard drive lets you to create a dual-boot system. This might be a good way to test out BackTrack, but if you really want to become proficient with it-install it on your hard drive. When you turn off your machine, everything is gone and no changes will have been made to your hard drive and system.

This will run BackTrack as a liveCD, which means that you can use it, but nothing is written to your hard disk. Place the DVD of BackTrack into your DVD tray and reboot your system.

VirtualBox comes in close second-and it is free. VMware is my favorite, but it's not free. Install it on a virtual machine in a virtaulization system like VMWare Workstation, VirtualBox, or Virtual PC.Once we have a successfully burned DVD, we can install BackTrack, but there are a few options: When you get to the download screen, this is what you should see: You do not need to actually register-just hit the "Download" button. You can download the latest version of BackTrack in its website's downloads section. Two of those groups, WHAX and The Auditor Security Group, merged and formed Offensive Security, which released BackTrack 1.0 in February 2006. Several groups began to collect these tools and either make them available for download from one centralized repository, or began packaging them into a Linux-based CD or DVD. In the early part of the new millennium, hackers began to release their tools over the Web and share them with others. Yes, hacking was happening at the very start of the Internet, but it didn't thrive until there was big money involved.īack then, hackers developed their own tools and exploits. So, we can date hacking's birth to less than 15 years ago. The Internet became commercialized in the mid-'90s, but it wasn't until the late-'90s that e-commerce sites were widely used. No, not the Big Bang, but the beginning of hacking and using BackTrack. If you want to follow my hacks, you need BackTrack-period.

This article serves as an introduction to BackTrack, including where to get it, how to install it, and how to navigate and use it.
