Rogue Detection

Rogue Detection is a lightweight software application developed by Microsoft for helping you check if there are any rogue DHCP servers in the local subnet. It runs on Windows XP, Vista, 2003, and 2008.

Rogue DHCP servers may be misconfigured or unauthorized, or they may hide malicious malware. Due to these servers you may experience network access problems. Plus, if you deal with Trojans or other types of malicious infections, your security may be compromised.

You can keep Rogue Detection stored on pen drives on other portable devices to have it with you all the time. Plus, you may gain access to its interface by double-clicking the executable file because you do not have to go through an installation process.

You are welcomed by a straightforward interface. A help manual is not included in the package so you need to experiment a little bit with the dedicated parameters in order to understand how the program works.

Rogue Detection offers you the possibility to manually verify if there are any rogue DHCP servers in the local subnet. The application creates a list with all available DHCP servers in the subnet and provides information about each one, like valid DHCP server, server IP address, offered client IP address, gateway address, and response time.

What’s more, you can view the total number of detected rogue servers and analyze the authorized Microsoft DHCP servers in an Active Directory domain environment in a separate list, as well as get details about each authorized server, namely IPv4 address and name.

When it comes to configuration settings, you are offered the freedom to run the application on a specified IPv4 interface by selecting one of the discovered interfaces, perform discovery tasks one time or look for new servers at a custom number of minutes, as well as check out the total number of discovered servers by hovering your mouse cursor over the tool’s icon in the system tray.

Rogue Detection comes packed with several handy tools for helping you look for rogue DHCP servers, and can be configured by rookies and professionals alike.