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The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools
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and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to
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perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch
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installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security
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researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming
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language and includes components written in C and assembler.
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This is just a repackaged version of the installer you get from the Metasploit
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download page. As the framework now depends on ruby-1.9, which is not yet
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mainstream, the Rapid7 Metasploit team decided to distribute an all-in-one
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installer with everything needed inside it, both for the ruby side and the
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subversion one.
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2010-05-12 23:32:09 +02:00
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2010-05-13 00:36:29 +02:00
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An optional cron script to keep the framework up to date is distributed inside
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the /usr/doc/framework-3.3 directory. Also, note that the install directory
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has been switched to /opt/metasploit3.
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