![]() ![]() The foistware chosen by CNET and apparently endorsed by Nmap could be changed at any time.) (At least, it’s the Babylon Toolbar at the moment. On your way to the Nmap download, you’re rather pushily offered the Babylon Toolbar first. Instead, CNET has wrapped the Nmap installer with a program of its own. The problem is to be found on, the well-known file repository operated by technology media company CNET.ĬNET offers you a free download of Nmap, but not from Fyodor’s own site. I even went all the way to Las Vegas to give Fyodor a 2010 Sophos DECODEME T-shirt because its design and layout was automated using a Lua program.) (I have a particular fondness for Nmap because it’s liberally extensible with a scripting engine which uses Lua, my favourite programming language. It can help you locate rogue PCs and servers, spot services which shouldn’t be running, identify firewalls and routers on your network, and much more. If you’ve ever done any network troubleshooting or security assessment, you’ve probably used it. He is the creator and maintainer of the widely-used network auditing and penetration-testing tool Nmap. You probably know him better by his nickname, Fyodor (after Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of Notes From Undergound). Gordon Lyon is a popular, successful and charismatic open-source software maker.
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