Nikto Homepage: http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml

Description: Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 3300 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, versions on over 625 servers, and version specific problems on over 230 servers. Scan items and plugins are frequently updated and can be automatically updated (if desired).

Nikto is not designed as an overly stealthy tool. It will test a web server in the shortest timespan possible, and it’s fairly obvious in log files. However, there is support for LibWhisker’s anti-IDS methods in case you want to give it a try (or test your IDS system).

Under Ubuntu First I will download and install it from the repositories:

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What is JanusVM?
JanusVM is software that allows you to surf the Internet without oppression or censorship, while protecting your privacy, security, and identity. It has advanced filtering capabilities for modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. JanusVM was designed to used on Microsoft Windows (2000/XP/2003) and Linux. (Source)

You need to download and install VirtualBox which you can download free from their website : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

You can also use VMware player which is also free and run the the preconfigured VirtualMachine download of JanusVM. You can use the Live ISO version of JanusVM with VMware too but you need the commersial server version of VMware for that.

For this Experiment we will use the VirtualBox and Live ISO version of JanusVM under Windows 2003 environment.

First we install VirtualBox:

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Run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, on your Macintosh at the same time as Mac OS X – without rebooting. Designed from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion allows you to run Mac and Windows applications side-by-side – quickly and effortlessly sharing information between the two operating systems’ environments.

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/index.html

Kcpentrix is a Knowledgecave.com Project.

The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators

What’s New in KcPentrix 2.0:

Now release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing a network, from scanning and discovering to exploiting vulnerabilities

Kcpentrix is based on SLAX 5, a Slackware live Dvd

The Powerful modularity which Kcpentrix uses, allow us to easily customize our version, and include whichever modules we need.

KCPENTRIX 2.0 is the most inovative and promising KCPENTRIX ever.
It switched to 2.6 kernel line. Zisofs compression was replaced by SquashFS, which provides better compression ratio and higher read speed.

http://kcpentrix.com/