Hey Hey,

I'm writing a scanner as a backend to a php web app. The purpose of it is to scan for common ports that virii and trojans open, to try and elmininate such infections from PCs in the College Residence. I called it PyScan because that seemed simple enough and it seems there are already several pieces of software with that name. I was going to change it but then said, "To hell with it", basically because I can't think of a name, if Anyone can thing of a name and wants to post it here, or PM me. I'll consider them and work on changing it and throw out an acknowledgement in the files. When it's complete I plan on publishing it and creating a website dedicated to it and future versions. However for now it is a single python file. Some of you may have to remove the #! line or modify it. I did that for simplicity so that you can simply type ./pyscan.py however if you prefer to type python <script> that should work also.

From the documentation in the file:
PyScan 0.1b by Tyler Reguly [[email protected]]

Description: Developed for use in College Technical Support Centre for Scanning Ports which
Trojans and Virii are known to open. Only some of the features are currently implemented
and it is buggy as all hell. However it will scan a single IP address checking the ports listed
in portlist.txt

Development Plans: The usage of this file gives away some of the upcoming plans. Which will include
HTML output (The plan of this is to use it as the back-end for a scanning website),
Class C Network Scanning and command-line port listing. There are also plans to
add threading so that several ports/hosts can be scanned at one time, however
this is still several versions down the road.

Comments: So far about 3 hours have gone into the development of this program. Comments, bug
reports, suggestions, complaints and flames are welcome at the above email address.
If you are so include to check it out pyscan.py -h will display the usage menu and a list of commands, implemented or otherwise. A Basic scan is performed through ./pyscan.py -i <ip address>.

Peace,
HT