How to Bridge Windows Virtual PC (Windows 7) to use Host Computer Wireless Network

If you are using Windows Virtual PC in Windows 7, you may notice that the Windows Virtual PC is different than the Virtual PC 2007, because it can't use the host computer wireless connection for bridging. This problem can be easily solved by switching VMware player/workstation/server.

If you are looking for the solution for your Virtual PC 2007, see here. Here, I'll show you how I hack Windows 7 to make this work in wireless network.

1. Create and start wireless hosted network in Windows 7. See the detail here.
2. Enable (host) wireless adapter to allow ICS for MS Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter. See the detail here if it is disable by network administrator.
3. At your Virtual PC, Set "Networking Adapter" to use "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter".

Now, your Virtual PC should start getting a new IP address from DHCP, and should be connecting to network like using the wired network (Ethernet).

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How to start System Privilege cmd.exe

In Windows 7, there is an easy way to start a command prompt with "NT Authority\System" privilege from a administrator account. This was used to be easy in the past.

To do so, from an administrator's command prompt, type "psexec -i -s powershell.exe". PSExec is a utility downloaded from SysInternal at Microsoft.

cmd.exe with System privilege

Alternative Nessus Feeds

Found an old news. I'm not sure if it is still updated or not.


These people at Alienvault.com, has released an alternative Nessus feeds, they have 3211 plugins in the feed now. They provide a lot of SCADA servers plugins, this is interesting since the only plugins available for SCADA were paid. The plugins also work on OpenVAS.

Go to AlienVault Feed for Nessus.

Verify Nessus Feed Information

Today I found a way to verify my Tenable Nessus feed information.

root@bt:/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins# cat plugin_feed_info.inc

PLUGIN_SET = "201008312334";

PLUGIN_FEED = "ProfessionalFeed (Direct)";

root@bt:/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins#