Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

Installing Metasploit Community Edition on Windows

For a successful installation on Windows, follow these steps:

1. First of all, please make sure that you have disabled the anti-virus (AV) and firewall on your system. AV generally detects and flags some files as malicious in Metasploit CE:

2. Also, please make sure that you put the Metasploit installation folder in your AV and firewall exceptions list if you're running Windows. This way, your generated payloads will be excluded from the AV:

3. Since Metasploit CE can also be accessed via a web ...