SoftPerfect Network Scanner V4.4.5    Suggested by NewKreation - Updated by guinness on 20 Jan 2010 713KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (2812) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (7) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Webfork: For users or admins that are on a network and want to see what's available. Since many network services are made invisible behind firewalls, you often need specific IP addresses -- Network Scan helps you find them.

Beginning users: Select Options - Auto Detect Local IP Range, and select the network adapter that's connected to your network. Then click Start Scanning in the main window to get a quick idea if the program will be useful or not. [2007-06-11 13:37]

 Roland: I'd be cautious using anything to do network discovery via pings. You don't want to "ping of death" your own network from the inside, after all. I've seen ping storms bring corporate networks to their knees. [2008-05-23 09:34]

 paul: In addition to using the option "/ini", you can also now use "/xml" to save settings in an xml file when running on a hard drive an if you do not want to store things in the registry.

The /xml is a much better option since if netscan is run from a removable USB drive, it writes settings to an xml file on the drive by default. [2008-10-22 11:06]

 Mike: This is the best network scanner I've ever used. I use it at work to see which IP addresses are in use. [2009-03-02 11:12]

 oTHEr: SCARY! A few notes:
Love the 'Auto-Detect', helps a Lot! Two NICs/Networks, Local (mine) and Building - Found both, scanned separately - Nice!
Very thorough, among my best 'Quick-and-Dirty' tools; Not a full 'Pen Test', but a Great Start!

Thanks for the '/xml' tip, @ paul!

It did NOT set off any of my Security! (have to look into that! 0.o)

SoftPerfect has several other Free Tools that look interesting, but I'm not sure about 'Portability'/Stealth... [2009-03-03 06:56]

 Fred: Wow, pretty damn nice!

Would be cool if it showed if admin shares (like c$ - admin share of C:\) [2009-03-15 21:39]

 Imran: Does it leave any trace on the host computer? while viewing the secret shared resources? [2009-05-31 21:46]

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