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B&W Port Scanner is a software tool that was designed specifically to aid individuals in TCP port scanning, and saving the results to the hard drive.

The installation process does not take longer than a few seconds, as it does not offer to download or add any products that are not actually necessary for the program to properly function. The interface you are met with encloses a simple and clean design. It consists of a menu bar, a few boxes and a pane in which to display all the detected data. It is suitable to all types of users, be they beginners or highly experienced people.

This software utility enables you to scan a specified IP range, with user-defined TCP ports, while you can also chose the maximum number of threads. Aside from that, it is possible to use detectors in order to look for HTTP servers, unprotected shares, vulnerable RDCs and FTP servers and hosts without opened ports can be hidden.

Results can be saved to a custom location on the hard drive, in formats such as BIN and XML. In addition to that, you can open these types of files. A color coded system is in place, which enables you to figure out, at first glance which items are vulnerabilities, services, open ports and hosts.

To sum up, B&W Port Scanner is a pretty decent piece of software, dedicated to all types of users that are interested in scanning TCP ports. Tasks are performed in due time and it does not put a strain on the computer. Nonetheless, you should know that it does not always behave properly.