Computer security remains one of the main concerns for most users connected to the Internet, especially when thinking that the number of available infections grows at a very fast pace every day.
Local Port Scanner comes to stay “Stop!” to all these concerns, planning to help every user out there add a new security layer to their computers.
It does such a simple and important thing that you'll most likely ask yourselves why you haven't tried it before: it scans the computer for open ports and provides valuable information regarding each of them.
It's only natural to expect a very complicated application, but Local Port Scanner has been designed to serve both beginners and experienced users, so it comprises a very simple interface to reach its goal.
It provides multiple scanning modes, depending on your options, as it follows: trojan scan, stealth scan, quick scan, ICMP scan, full TCP scan, full UDP scan and a user defined scan.
Each of the aforementioned modes are designed to check for the ports used by the most popular infections living out there in the wild, so you will know for sure if your computer is exposed to risks or not. Plus, you'll know exactly what to do to block a certain type of infection, so A+ for student Local Port Scanner.
The scanning process goes very fast and smooth, at least it went so during our tests, while computer performance wasn't affected at all.
If you're the kind of guy who likes to have a look under the hood of every piece of software on the market, there's an Options menu too, so you will be able to enable background scanning to check for open ports without disturbing you.
All in all, Local Port Scanner is quite a handy tool if you wish to know whether your computer is exposed to risks or not, so give it to make sure you're not the next victim of hackers.
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