HOW TO INSTALL THC HYDRA WINDOWS HOW TO
HOW TO INSTALL THC HYDRA WINDOWS .EXE

You can edit this if needed to try and get it working, or simply navigate to the hydra folder before running it each time. This is mainly for my Linux users as it doesnРІР‚в„ўt properly work in Cygwin environment due to the default paths being different and errors can be ignored. NOTE: The last one for make install is not required but allows it to install to the local path environment to avoid always having to navigate to the install folder to use/run. This is what the process should look like for you upon opening the first time through completion with Desktop shortcut created: If you have low bandwidth this could take some time as it downloads most of the packages from Internet (like SVN), so go have lunch and a beer, smoke or whatever your fancy and come back in a bit. Another option is to install everything by clicking on the Default field next to the All category. When running setup.exe, clicking on categories and packages in the package installation screen will provide you with the ability to control what is installed or updated. For example, if for example you wanted to also compile C++ programs you would need to make sure you included the gcc-g++ package and some kind of text editor like Vi or Nano. You can search through them and choose the ones you want/need or choose simply to include everything if you have the space and want to avoid having to troubleshoot missing items later. This will open the initial setup for Cygwin environment, which by default only includes the basic items needed. Just double click on this when you are ready to get started. You need to start by downloading the Setup.EXE file from the main site listed above.

OK with that out of the way, we can begin. The catch is that you can't just run any Linux program you want you have to build or compile everything you will want to use from source to get it to work in Cygwin environment properly (and even then it is not guaranteed it will work if it was never designed for Windows/Cygwin). This is done through the cywin1.dll which allows you to run many programs not originally designed for Windows (i.e. Cygwin is like a Linux emulator for Windows, in that it creates a Linux API environment within your windows environment to provide a lot of Linux API functionality (not 100% but close).

HOW TO INSTALL THC HYDRA WINDOWS .EXE

EXE file for Windows to make this magically work (probably a virus if you find one or it is very outdated). In order to pull this off properly we will need to setup a Cygwin environment on our Windows machine, as there is NO supported.

HOW TO INSTALL THC HYDRA WINDOWS HOW TO

Today I will show you how to setup the parallel threaded multi-protocol cracker known as THCHydra to work under a Windows 7 environment. UPDATED: Now includes video for getting XHYDRA working on Backtrack 5 at the bottom!

How to install thc hydra windows