The following video shows steps on hacking a Windows 7 pc using Backtrack 4 Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) from a VritualBox. It also shows simple steps on how to prevent such hack attacks on Windows systems.
Hopefully the user gets an idea of what is involved in an attack and how to protect against it.
When you click on the "services" or "shared folder" or any other tab in the KDE (Gui) environment in BackTrack 4 on Oracle VirtualBox 4, you are asked to select the correct platform to display your request.
Select "Ubuntu/Linux" -> 7.04 (Feisty) as the supported platform .
2) Download BackTrack 4 vmware image file from http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ .
Note: I have installed BT4 from a release image also and it works without any issues
3) Open "Oracle VM VirtualBox" by double clicking the icon on the desktop or from Start->Programs->Oracle VM VirtualBox
4) Click Next
5) Type BackTrack 4 in the name box. Select Linux and Ubuntu as the
6) Leave Defaults and select Next
7) Leave Defaults and select Next
8) Select Next
9) Select Next
10) Select Next
11) Review Summary and select Finish
12) Select Finish
13) This will create the BackTrack4 VM
14) Now to Configure BackTrack click "Settings" tab in the Oracle VM manager box
15) Adjust the Base Memory to an appropriate level and click OK to close the window. In the figure you can see we get a message if its set to a high value resulting in system performance issues.
16) Select BackTrack 4 and click "Start" . You'll get the First Run Wizard. Click Next
17) Select the file/folder where you downloaded the BackTrack 4 image file and click Next
18) Review Summary and click Finish
19) Select the default "Start BackTrack Frame Buffer (1024x768) and hit Enter
20) You'll see the BackTrack command line. Type "startx" to launch the Gui interface. BackTrack is now installed.