OpenDiagnostics Live CD
From OpenDiagnostics
The OpenDiagnostics Live CD (formerly know as the ClamAV Live CD) was created a few years back when this guy named Brandon Perry thought it would be awesome to be able to scan computers on the fly regardless of the OS, and to be able to do it over SSH would be even better!
So, after a weekend of hacking, a small 160MB iso image with a small version of Ubuntu and ClamAV, with a few other utilities for disk/file repair came to be. Sucking up to his boss, he even threw a big Computer Care of Arlington logo on the background of the menu for customers to see.
After a few more weekends of hacking up scripts and figuring out how to make the CD as small as possible, Brandon Perry released the CD on his website.
Features
Very lightweight, the CD is fluctuates between 300MB and 400MB and will fit on most writable media. This enables it to run on a very wide selection of computers. During the time it was used at the repair shop, computers with as little as 128 MB ram were successfully (read: took forever) scanned.
Opening Menu
In the 'Other options' menu on the Live CD, you have a variety of utilities right out of the box that help appease freaked out customers who can't remember their passwords and such.
DBAN -- Darik's Boot and Nuke -- For data destruction quickly and painlessly, boot up and hit 'Autonuke'.
chntpw -- Change NT Password -- Many times customers buy used computers, not knowing it is passworded. Kill it in just a few minutes.
memtest -- Memory Test -- Quickly test the computers RAM to diagnose a computer that is rebooting unexpectedly.
and finally...
OpenDiagnostics Live CD
A plethora of utilities let you wipe, copy, restore, and repair disks, detect and diagnose network issues and bottlenecks, recover lost files (even on passworded (read: not encrypted) accounts), and much more. There is even a full wordlist in /opt for use with john.
Getting Started
A nifty tutorial has been written and is added to from time to time to include more utilities from the CD as the are added.
See GettingStarted.
Bugs/Feature Requests
Feel free to contact me to report any bugs or request features.
