Winternals
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Sysinternals is a website (formerly known as "ntinternals") operated by the company Winternals Software LP, which is located in Austin, Texas. It was started by software developers Bryce Cogswell and Mark Russinovich in 1996, and was acquired by Microsoft on July 18, 2006.[1]
The website features several freeware tools to administrate and monitor computers running Microsoft Windows operating system. The company also sells data recovery utilities and professional editions of their freeware tools.
It was Mark Russinovich who sparked the 2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal in a October 2005 posting to the Sysinternals blog[2].
On July 18 2006, Microsoft Corporation acquired Russinovich's two sites. Russinovich explained that Sysinternals will remain active until Microsoft agrees on a method of distributing the tools provided there[3]. However NT Locksmith, a Windows password recovery utility, was immediately removed.
[edit] Products
Winternals have produced a number of utilities, now available from Microsoft, including defragmentation utilities Contig and PageDefrag, diagnostic tools such as Process Explorer and RootkitRevealer and tools that simply fill perceived gaps in Microsoft's products like NTFSDOS that allows NTFS volumes to be read by Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system.
[edit] References
- ^ Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software. Company Press Releases. Winternals Software (July 18, 2006). Retrieved on 2006-07-18.
- ^ Mark Russinovich (October 31, 2005). Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far. Sysinternals Blog. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ Mark Russinovich (July 18, 2006). On My Way to Microsoft!. Sysinternals Blog. Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
