If you need help with Metasploit, here are some people and places that will prove invaluable.
- Homepage: http://www.metasploit.com/
- Manual and documentation: http://help.metasploit.com/
- Wiki: http://wiki.backbox.org/index.php/Metasploit
- Blog: https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog
- Source code: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
There are countless tutorials and articles on the web covering various aspect of Metasploit. You can search for a specific task to do on a search engine (Google, Bing, and Yahoo) and might end up visiting exciting websites with clear explanations on how to do it. Metasploit users are everywhere and their posts on the web extend to picture albums, source codes, and also video tutorials. The following are some sites that will be familiar to GIMP users:
- http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Main_Page
- http://backtracktutorials.com/metasploit-tutorial/
- http://www.securitytube.net/video/1175 (Metasploit Mega primer, Vivek Ramachandra)
If you are looking to get involved in Metasploit, these links will be useful for you:
- Official mailing list: http://mail.metasploit.com/mailman/listinfo/framework
- Official forums: https://community.rapid7.com/welcome
- Unofficial forums: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/forum.php
- Official IRC channel: https://community.rapid7.com/docs/DOC-2198
- User FAQ: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Metasploit/Frequently_Asked_Questions
If you are a Twitter user, I must mention these Twitter pages:
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