Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "This can be simply achieved using the db_export function."

A block of code is set as follows:

require 'msf/core'
require 'rex'
require 'msf/core/post/windows/registry'
class Metasploit3 < Msf::Post
  include Msf::Post::Windows::Registry
  def initialize
    super(
        'Name'          => 'Drive Disabler Module',
        'Description'   => 'C Drive Disabler Module',
        'License'       => MSF_LICENSE,
        'Author' => 'Nipun Jaswal'
      )
  End

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

#services postgresql start
#services metasploit start

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Type an appropriate name in the Name field and select the Operating System type and Version."