NSFAQ (Not So Frequently Asked Questions)

In the previous post, where we talked about winexe, we showed how to execute shell commands from our linux console. Our first idea was to start and stop services ( net start; net stop), but once we have a windows shell, we can go beyond a do a lot more. to achieve that, we can use pstools .

With them we will feel like we were our windows console, because we can have ps (pslist), a kill (pskill, how I missed this one...), and a lot more.

They are official microsoft tools, they aren't open source (software libre). They were created by Mark Russinovich and his company, SysInternals, and they were so successful that microsoft bought them, becoming official tools.