Advanced IP Scanner

Scanning System and Network Resources Using Advanced IP Scanner

Network scanning is performed to collect information about live systems,open ports, and network vulnerabilities. Gathered information is helpful in determining threats and vulnerabilities in a network and to know whether there are any suspicious or unauthorized IP connections,which may enable data theft and cause damage to resources.

This is just a basic tutorial how to use IP scanner tool which can be downloaded from here

Advanced IP Scanner is a free network scanner that gives you various types of information regarding local network computers.

After downloading tool follow the below steps :

• Open the tool you can install it or just use portable option to run directly.
  
  
  
• Enter the IP address range in the Select range field to which your PC is connected and Start Scan. (You can check your IP by typing ipconfig in commad prompt)

(Scanning for Range 192.16.37.1 – 192.168.37.255)

• Advanced IP Scanner scans all the IP address within the range and displays the scan results after completion.

• In above screenshot  Advanced IP Scanner has detected the victim machine’s  IP address(192.168.37.157) with status as alive 
• Right-click on the detected IP address.It will list Wake-On-LAN,Shutdown, and Abort Shutdown

• The list displays properties of the detected computer, such as IP address, Name, MAC, and NetBIOS information.
• You can forcefully Shutdown, Reboot, and Abort Shutdown the selected victim machine IP address.

• Now you have the IP address, Name, and other details of the victim machine.You can control their system if you know the password.
• Now I am going to shutdown victim’s machine, i know the username and password

• The request of shutdown is processing.

• When the victims machine is been shutdown,you receive “Succeeded” reply.

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Information Collected:

• IP address
• System name
• MAC address
• NetBIOS information
• Manufacturer
• System Status