GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner 9.0 Build 20090313

3.6 out of 5 stars 3.6 (38 votes)

(March 17, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/XP / Shareware; $575.00 / 18,545 downloads

GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) is a tool to audit network security and proactively secure it. It is also a complete patch management solution. GFI LANguard N.S.S. scans entire networks from a 'hacker's' perspective, and analyses machines for open ports, shares, security alerts/vulnerabilities, service pack level, installed hotfixes and other NETBIOS information such as hostname, logged on user name, users etc. It does OS detection, password strength testing and detects registry issues.

The tool checks that anti-virus and anti-spyware deployments are offering optimum protection, ensuring the most recent definition files are installed on user machines. It also provides multinational and hybrid environment support through multilingual patch management and enhanced Linux checks, allowing IT admins to scan and secure their entire network environment.

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  1. 2 out of 5 stars
    EarlyMorningHours

    Reviewing 7.0 Build 20060118 (Jan 20, 2006)

    This use to be a much better utility than it is now. The same could be said for the company. What use to be a small, unobtrusive, reliable program has suffered from it's own success. It gets bigger, slower, and buggier with each major release. One can only hope that GFI listens to user feedback.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 6.0 Beta (Nov 24, 2004)

    Showed incorrect ports open on a test system (telnet, [was disabled] netbus [trend micro uses same port]) that even trivial scans could detect correctly. I hate false positives.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    c4p0ne

    Reviewing 3.1 Beta (Nov 7, 2002)

    Generally a good scanner/reconiassance tool but there are a few annoying bugs. The way the options are setup in the interface are counterintuative. All the options should be in one place. Also, when NetBIOS shares are found on a target machine, sometimes when you d-click on a share.. Nothing happens. No problem with that because it's probably a problem on the targer PC but at least pop some s*** up saying "could not open share because of ..." instead of having me wait for like 2 aeons.

    Also I have noticed a problem with the pass-cracking under NT/2K/XP systems, namely, you have to be REAL lucky for it to "catch on" (work) half the time. What happens is that it goes though the password-list like in 2 seconds (!) and says "password cannot be cracked". Yeah right! I wish cracking over a dial-up would take 2 seconds! LOL! This may be a problem with dial-up though, nonetheless, FIX IT! =)

    On the other hand cracking on 9x systems always works for me and it's great to see that LANguard uses the old win9x vulnerability (if system is not patched) to crach 9x passwords in literally under 1 minute. This over all is a good tool that could consolidate the features (so it doesnt wind up doing what ICQ did to themselves) and fix a few bugs.

    -c4p0ne

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    KIA133

    Reviewing 3.1 Beta (Nov 7, 2002)

    Bad password cracking. It can`t crack password on Win98 system. I haven`t tried on NT. Good info about LAN cards.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    zulugrid

    Reviewing 3.0r6 (Oct 13, 2002)

    Appeared to have tons of features. Too bad they weren't very intuitive. And why were the options in the left frame clickable if clicking them didn't do anything? And where are instructions on how to fix the problems that I apparantly have? And what patches will be deployed if I click "deploy patches"? The makers of this software assume that the users know more than they might know. On the plus side, it convenietly puts an uninstall icon in the start menu like a good program should.

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