Socks Proxy Scanner

Socks Proxy Scanner is a small utility that helps you locate socks proxy servers, as the name suggests. It is portable, provides a list of dangerous IPs to scan, and is suitable for network administrators as well as common users.

As installation is not an issue, you can simply drop the program files anywhere on the hard disk and run the executable file, provided that you have the WinPCap application installed on your computer.

It is also possible to move Socks Proxy Scanner to a USB flash disk or other removable device, in order to run it on any workstation with an active online connection.

It's important to make a note of the fact that portable utilities do not fiddle with the Windows Registry, nor leave files behind on the hard disk after removing them.

The interface of the program doesn't present a high level of complexity concerning navigation. On the contrary, all buttons are neatly displayed in the toolbar, and the main frame shows the port number, protocol, status, test result, country of origin and DNS name for each IP address it finds after a scanning procedure.

You can make a copy of any entry in the list to the Clipboard, whether we're talking about the IP address, DNS name, port, IP and port, or DNS and port, as well as save this list to a plain text document (TXT format) for further scrutiny.

The program's configuration can be made from the Options panel, where you can select the network adapter, TCP requests per second, maximum threads for testing ports, and the source port. You can skip the retrieval of countries and DNS names, hide unavailable proxy servers from the list, create a list of IP and port ranges, establish the filename pattern, and others.

Socks Proxy Scanner is not a concern to the computer's resources, as it uses a low quantity of CPU and system memory. It has a response time and may take a while to complete a scan job. But we haven't found any problems in our evaluation, as the app was stable and didn't display error notifications. In conclusion, Socks Proxy Scanner delivers a simple method to finding socks proxy servers, without making the user go through a complicated configuration process.