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: Code words in text are shown as follows: "Type msfconsole and hit Enter. "

A block of code is set as follows:

#include <stdio.h>

void AdminFunction()
 { 
    printf("Congratulations!\n");
    printf("You have entered in the Admin function!\n");
 }

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

wget http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-latest-linux-installer.run

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: "Click on Forward to proceed with the installation."