Angry IP Scanner Listed As Malware

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Angry IP Scanner is a very popular tool for network monitoring. It is being used by network administrators all over the world. It is featured in many magazine articles and other publications on security.

The program is very lightweight and unobtrusive (a user may just download and run it - no installation is needed). The full source code is available under the GPL license for anyone to review - there are no viruses or trojans.

Anti-virus software vendors (currently Symantec and McAfee), please stop considering it as a malware ('hacktool', 'potentionally unwanted program', etc). The users of both your anti-virus software and Angry IP Scanner are very disappointed about the removal of the program they actually need and use.

There is really no reason for doing that with Angry IP Scanner.

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  • nyofe
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    • samn
  • Alex K
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    • Remove Angry IP from detection.
  • afzal
  • Eric W
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    • nothing but just a handy tool
  • Louis S
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    • I need this for my work and home networks.
  • Cathy L
  • Nuno L
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    • This software is NO malware!!! Anyway, i dont use Mcafee nor Symantec, and i will tell everyone not to use those anti virus because in my opinion they dont do a good job!
  • Oscari S
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    • Stop bugging small open-source developers!
  • luigi v
  • Goran S
  • Peter L
  • Mike S
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    • I love Angry IP and find it to be a very useful tool for managing our network.
  • Brian E
  • Alessandro
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    • IPSCAN is powerfull and usefull tool
  • cahumba
  • Metin A
  • Andres
  • khaled
  • Bernard A
  • Robert P
  • Youngjin J
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    • I had put ipscanner on my server to use it to check the security settings, but Symantec AntiVirus has removed it. It is too bad.
  • Robin B
  • Hans S
  • akram
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    • This Software very famous and very good remove it from your database
  • Peter T
  • fvalenti
  • Chris W
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    • Is this a joke? It would be better for used not to use Symantec and McAfee than get rid of Angry IP - Why the hell would they class is as Malware - Pathetic.
  • Terry W
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    • Angry IP Scanner is a very useful tool in my line of work - visiting schools where they don't keep up-to-date records of IP addresses, Angry IP solves this problem. Downside is that most of the schools use McAfee. Antivirus is supposed to stop Viruses (ie stuff that replicates and causes damage - nothing more!)
  • christopher s
  • Timo M
  • Luke M
  • Luca M
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    • it's an excellent tool for network administration
  • Paul Von R
  • Fernando D
  • Damon V
  • David H
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    • I love AngryIP. Extremely fast to check ping and other info from host in my LAN
  • Inuk S
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    • remove ipscan.exe from database
  • Bart T
  • Javi
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    • Ok
  • Laurent P
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    • We use this software at work and it is becoming an issue to have this stupid symantec think that it is a virus!!
  • Rick B
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    • I use Angry IP whenever I have to gather IP documentation about my network. This tool is NOT a security risk and is a very handy tool to have on your computer.
  • Ryan F
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  • Ian K
  • Chris A
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    • very important tool
  • Jason R
  • Vincent L
  • matt h
  • Paul C
  • Jeremy H