from Network World

Sysinternals Live is a test by Microsoft to see if it can come up with an alternative way to distribute and make available a popular set of tools that cover such areas as security, file/disk and networking.

Mark Russinovich, who wrote many of the Sysinternals tools while chief software architect of Winternals, made headlines in 2006 when he discovered Sony was using rootkits to protect copyrights on its CDs. He developed a tool to find and eliminate rootkits, which is now part of the Sysinternals lineup.

The service lets users run the Sysinternals tools on any computer connected to the Web. It uses Windows Explorer or a command
prompt and requires users to type in \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname>. The “toolname” is where users will enter the
.exe file name of any of a number of Sysinternals tools.

The benefit of the Web site, which is an ugly list of all the Sysinternals tools, is that administrators now will have the tools quickly available on any PC without having
to find a Web page and locate the .exe files. In addition, users will always get the most current versions of the tools.