May 17th, 2012· Added folder size retrieval on remote shared folders.
· Added vendor-specific XML retrieval via HTTP and parsing.
· Added random scan order feature (deceiving IDS/firewalls).
· Grabbing HTTP banner from ports 80, 443 (HTTPS), 3128 and 8080.
April 5th, 2012· Added showing number of selected computers.
· Fixed uptime retrieval for Vista and certain Windows Server editions.
· Added default parameters for user prompts.
· Added compact view for multiple IP address range input.
March 19th, 2012· Added asynchronous TCP port scanning as it's much faster than previous implementation.
· Sending WOL packet to a broadcast address now works correctly on multihomed machines.
· Sets of TCP port can now be grouped and have a description.
· Allowed the same user-prompt parameter to be repeated more than once when launching third party applications.
February 6th, 2012· Added network messaging via terminal services API.
· Added auto-resize columns on header divider double click.
· Added a watchdog timer that kills stalled threads when max run-time is set.
· Added on demand forced thread termination.
· Added global variables support for third-party applications.
January 11th, 2012· Fixed invalid pointer operation when interrupting scan with the /auto switch.
· Fixed saving third-party applications and other Base-64 encoded data to INI file.
· Added wildcards support to the remote file discovery.
November 21st, 2011· Added an option to save login info in shutdown and suspend dialogs.
· Added local and global group membership discovery.
· Fixed populating 10th column when multicolumn queries are used.
· Added rearranging objects with drag and drop (WMI, SNMP, services, files and registry entries).
November 4th, 2011· Added 64-bit build. Now the application comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
· Added using NetBios when looking up server roles if available.
· Fixed positioning application on an auxiliary monitor.
· Added even/odd row colouring and filter matches highlight.
October 5th, 2011· Added SMB protocol probe that improves reliability when resolving host name, work group, remote time and OS type.
· Fixed reading REG_MULTI_SZ values from the registry that ended up with garbled characters.
· Added decoding and displaying WMI arrays rather than just displaying "Array".
· Added name space support for WMI, so that namespaces other than CIMV2 can be used.
· Added thread max run-time parameter to gracefully terminate stalled threads.
September 20th, 2011· Disabled registry redirection so that on 64-bit Windows systems a 64-bit registry view is read.
· Added arranging user-defined applications.
· It is now possible to specify a URL as a user-defined application.
· It is now possible to pass values containing braces, e.g. a GUID to third-party applications.
· Added substitute variables to have date/time values in output file name.
· Respecting columns order specified in the /cols command-line switch.
· Added a HTTP banner grabbing feature to quickly identify web-server software.
July 18th, 2011· Added a separate option to determine shared folders free and total disk space.
· Added logging live display events to a file with all active columns contents logged.
· Added passing live log columns values to a third-party application launched upon events.
· Added minimisation to the notification area.
· Added handling SNMP exceptions previously reported as unknown type.
June 14th, 2011· Improved File - Import IP Address List command. It now understands IP address ranges and address/mask notations.
· Fixed failure to load a configuration file passed via command line if any other additional switch was present.
· Not using user name and password when sending a WMI query to the local host.
· Added UDP port scan for network time protocol (NTP) listeners.
· Added Universal Plug and Play device discovery that detects UPnP compatible devices in your network.
April 26th, 2011· Added /load command-line switch to load and optionally rescan a XML resultset.
· Added options to play a sound and launch a program in the live log.
· Added menu items to copy and save items from the live log view.
· SNMP query now takes into account ping timeout and retry count. This should speed up SNMP queries against not responding devices.
March 23rd, 2011· Added the /file command line switch to source a set of IP addresses to scan from a file.
· Fixed DHCP discovery as it failed to reuse a port if it has already been allocated to another process.
· Improved WMI query builder performance when retrieving class example values.
February 5th, 2011· Fixed failure to discover DHCP servers on a Windows Vista/7 multihomed machine.
· Entries in the WOL manager can now be edited via a popup menu.
· Added sorting bookmarks by column header click.
December 21st, 2010· Shared resources are no longer automatically exported unless specified explicitly with the /cols switch.
· Added auto-open the most recent file option.
· When launching a third-party application bring up the elevation prompt where necessary.
· Added noncontiguous IP address range scan mode (see help for details).
· Added monitor vendor, model and serial number retrieval.
November 25th, 2010· Added live display log showing computers joined and left the network.
· Fixed incorrect saving of multiple TCP ports, broken bookmark management and a few other minor issues.
· Improved WOL manager that allows to specify a custom IP/port for each wake-up target.
October 20th, 2010· Fixed incorrect SNMP uptime retrieval when a target host has been running over 100 days.
· Fixed incorrect SNMP string display where an ASCII string containing CR/LF was represented as a hex sequence.
· SNMP uptime column is now sorted properly as a number, not as string.
· Added multirange IP scan support (several different subnets can be scanned at once).
September 30th, 2010· Fixed DHCP module that mistakenly requested name server (option 5) instead of DNS server (option 6).
· Minor user interface fixes for systems with large fonts enabled.
· When scanning for shared folders administrative shares are no longer shown (reverted to version 4.x behaviour).
· Fixed 'argument out of range' message when scanning for shared folders.
September 28th, 2010· Fixed a bug in SNMP MAC address discovery. A MAC addresses could mistakenly be understood as IP address.
· Added showing used/free disk space for shared folders.
· Added copy/paste in remote registry, services, files, WMI and SNMP dialogs.
· Fixed broken authentication when running workstation scans.
· Fixed incorrect filtering of administrative shares.
September 27th, 2010· Fully reworked core with full support of Unicode. Now the application should have fewer troubles in a multilingual environment.
· Multicolumn SNMP queries. Now you can run several SNMP queries at once with results going to separate columns.
· More reliable domain name, host name and logged user detection. If the standard methods fail, it uses NetBios to grab this data.
· More reliable uptime retrieval. Previously it could have incorrectly displayed "None" as the uptime.
· New command to selectively rescan certain columns on the display rather than performing a complete rescan.
· Improved performance on large networks, although gains should also be noticeable even on home ones.
· Reports the authorised/unauthorised status of found DHCP servers based in their registration in the Active Directory.
· Various UI enhancements and fixes throughout the application.
August 31st, 2010· Added bookmark grouping (bookmarks can be organised in groups by using a vertical bar in its name).
· Added product version and file CRC32 checksum to the properties retrieved from remote files.
· Added DHCP server discovery / rogue server detection.
· Added basic UDP port scan: DNS and TFTP servers discovery.
July 17th, 2010· Added a workaround in ARP address discovery based on querying SNMP capable gateway (some routers returned malformed data).
· Fixed sorting by friendly name in the WOL manager.
· if launched from a hard disk drive, but the current folder contains a XML or INI configuration file, the application will use it instead of the registry.
· Added horizontal/vertical grid lines shown in the tree. Improved main window positioning.
· Added F2 shortcut to quickly assign comments/friendly names.
· Fixed ignored 'ping broadcast addresses' option when scanning previously undiscovered nodes.
· Added parameter substitution for any column when launching third-party applications.
May 13th, 2010· Fixed doubling bookmarks when loading an external configuration file.
· Fixed inability to launch 64-bit applications in %SystemRoot% such as mstsc.exe (remote desktop client).
· Added a tool for creating batch files to run a command against multiple computers. This can be used to update files or remote registry, configure services, etc.
March 25th, 2010· Added WOL manager button on the toolbar.
· Improved sorting in third-party applications in the options.
· Added passing host name to a third party application as %3.
· Added ignored IP addresses manager.
· Added /wolfile and /wakeall command-line switches related to Wake-On-LAN. See the manual for details.
· Added new MAC address discovery method. It works by querying the default gateway provided it is SNMP capable and enables you to determine MAC address of devices behind the router.
· Added a configurable delay between sending two WOL packets to avoid power consumption peaks.
January 20th, 2010· Duplicated logon sessions are no longer shown as logged-on users.
· Added an option to expand shared folders automatically.
· Streamlined and improved WMI query mechanism (better performance and new Win32 classes).
· Automatic naming of new WMI items in WMI manager.
· Fixed showing security info for shared folders broken several builds ago.
January 7th, 2010· Columns with last scan time, remote time/date and uptime are sorted properly (as time rather than as text).
· In HTML reports UNC links to shared folders now work in Firefox.
· Added 'Paste IP' button on the toolbar.
· Added sorting capability to WMI, remote services, files and registry managers.
· Added host name lookup options (FQDN / RDN) plus a better name resolution mechanism.
December 14th, 2009· Column visibility is now saved between sessions.
· Wake-on-LAN target IP address and port made configurable.
· WMI, remote registry, file and service columns now have proper titles rather than generic names.
· Fixed doubling WMI, remote registry, file and service records when loading an external configuration file.
November 28th, 2009· Added assigning friendly names to MAC addresses in the WOL manager.
· Added parsing colon-separated MAC addresses in addition to dash-separated.
· Added hibernate and suspend commands in addition to power off.
· Dead hosts and those gone off-line are drawn in gray for better readability.
· Added option to leave host information shown when it goes off-line.
· MAC address is now discovered and shown prior to other slower lookups.
· Faster termination of live display threads on rescan and shutting the application down.
· Filtered resultsets can now be saved excluding items not shown.
· Windows 95, 98, ME and NT are no longer officially supported.
November 15th, 2009· Multiple queries to remote registry, files and services are displayed in individual columns.
· Multiple simultaneous WMI queries support added (up to 10 at a time).
· Added quick visible column setup accessible via View - Visible Columns.
· Added advanced filtering panel allowing to show/hide computers on the main display.
November 7th, 2009· Bookmarks can now be copied/pasted.
· Added 'Wake Selected' command in the WOL manager.
· Applications can be sorted in the editor.
· When host goes off-line its friendly name remains shown (was cleared before).
· Fixed an access violation error after searching the list.
· Multi-column sort implemented (hold Ctrl and click the columns).
· Faster rescan of individual computers in the list.
· Added MRU list for recently saved/loaded results.
· Added user account enumeration.
· Added remote service query support.
· Added server type/role lookup.
· Several minor bug-fixes and enhancements.
October 21st, 2009· Showing friendly names in the Wake-on-LAN manager if mapping MAC-to-friendly name is turned on.
· Option to load initial configuration.
· Several usability enhancements (hotkey to start scan, sort/copy/paste in friendly names, etc).
· User-prompt parameters in third-party applications.
· All actions can now be launched against multiple computers at once.
October 6th, 2009· Added Wake-On-LAN address manager for mass wakening.
· Added an option to clear or append to the current display when loading a file.
· Added import of IP address list from a file.
September 20th, 2009· Improved external application management.
· Added remote disk drive enumeration.
· Added uptime retrieval, plus minor optimisations.
September 11th, 2009· Bookmarks can be sorted.
· Fixed problem with message 'invalid integer value' when loading some resultsets.
· Enhanced thread scheduler should work better with many threads (over 50).
August 22nd, 2009· Quick mapping to friendly names (usability enhancement).
· Extra check for netscan shown off-screen on multi-monitor configurations.
· Rescanning of previously undiscovered nodes either when loading a XML file or on command.
August 9th, 2009· Added '/config' command-line switch allowing to load a specific XML configuration file on startup.
· Added 'Open as Secure Web (HTTPS)' command.
· Added remote time-of-the-day discovery.
· New live display discovery modes. Either scanning for previously undiscovered nodes only, or rescanning those already discovered, or both (old behaviour).
· Enhanced search dialog (bidirectional now).
· Added IPv6 address discovery (Windows Vista and above).
· Minor code optimisations and GUI enhancements.
June 26th, 2009· Fixed broken remote registry scan (local registry was scanned due to a bug).
· Added several extra predefined registry keys related to Windows information).
June 21st, 2009· Maximum possible number of threads raised up to 1000.
· Implemented Drag-n-Drop to rearrange MIB OIDs in the SNMP OID manager.
· Added Mark All/None button in registry and remote file scan. Default items are initially unmarked.
June 14th, 2009· Added remote registry scan. The application can connect to the remote registry of remote PCs running Windows and retrieve useful information.
· Added remote file scan. Likewise, provided the administrative shares are enabled and accessible, you can pull out information about a specific file on remote computers.
May 30th, 2009· Fixed showing host properties as they failed with an AV error.
· Fixed showing shared folder properties as they did not work.
May 28th, 2009· New feature: NIC vendor lookup based on the first three octets of a MAC address.
· Added Windows 2008 R2 / Windows Seven detection in remote OS lookup.
· Enhanced ability to copy value from any visible column to the clipboard (previously only 4 predefined columns were available).
· A set of operations such as Wake-on-LAN, network messaging, remote shutdown and remote poweroff can now be performed against a set of computers rather than on a one-by-one basis.
· Fixed saving to CSV if data contained quotes or commas.
· Removed the redundant word 'Open' shown in the list of open ports.
May 20th, 2009· Fixed overlapped toolbars when large fonts are enabled.
· If an error occurs while sending a network message, the application prints error code and description.
· Check whether a host is up and running before accessing it is made configurable.
March 30th, 2009· Added saving favourite IP ranges as bookmarks.
· Added preliminary shared folder security scan (reading permissions for the user "Everyone").
· Added a feature to send network messages to a remote host.
· The scanner now logs in with user-specified credentials used in a scan when exploring a shared folder
March 22nd, 2009· User interface enhancements: Improved the status display, showing a number of visible/total computesr, and a number of threads separately.
· Columns made draggable allowing the user to arrange them in a convenient way.
March 1st, 2009· Ping ICMP requests are now sent with a 32-byte payload. Previously they were sent without any payload, which some routers handled incorrectly.
· Added 'Last Scan' column with a scan timestamp useful for long running or continuous scans.
· Fixed an issue in which computers being scanned have been wrongly hidden if a filter was applied.
February 12th, 2009· Fixed a tiny problem with icon showing scan progress.
January 29th, 2009· Added a 'Rescan all computers' command that lets you re-scan all the computers shown in the list (filtered or not).
· Added a quick check whether a host is on-line before attempting to explore shared folders. This is to prevent the network scanner from being unresponsive while attempting to explore a shared folder on an off-line host.
January 5th, 2009· Enhanced the on-line auto update feature
January 5th, 2009· Added a menu item to copy the complete path to a shared folder to the clipboard.
· Added automatic online version checking with user notification if a newer release is available.
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