Netcat in windows
Just had a nightmare finding a binary for windows that wasn’t cygwinized… eventually found it here
http://www.hackosis.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/nc111nt.zip
[update]
Jon Craton has mirrored this file in case the other link goes down
http://joncraton.org/files/nc111nt.zip
(Cheers
[update 2]
It seems that antivirus programs mark netcat as a threat when actually it is just a useful tool - see conversation and links in comments for details.
Tags: sysadmin
June 19th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Thanks mate, saved me a whole lot of looking, I was just starting to despair
June 20th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I had a hard time finding this file myself. Thanks for the link. I found this blog via Google.
I have mirrored the file on my site in case that link goes down in the future.
http://joncraton.org/files/nc111nt.zip
June 24th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
It won’t go down. :p
July 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
But the real origin of netcat win32 port, http://www.vulnwatch.org/netcat/, is indeed down for (at least) days. It even disappeared completely from google cache. So your copy may be more valuable now
August 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Too bad these links no longer work. Only downloads 65,536 bytes and ZIP complains of missing signature and cannot open it.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Thank you very much, I had a very hard time tracking down this little tool a week or so ago, I did end up finding it but then someone deleted it on me and I couldn’t remember where I got it from last time.
Your just saved me a lot of time searching all over again
August 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
@Madman: I just tried redownloading the first link and it seems to work ok.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Hey guys, it is me or all the archives you linked contain a virus-infected executable in it ? Kapersky, Norton and AVG all complain that it is infected by RemoteAdmin.Win32.NetCat
I recompiled the source with MinGW and no more complain …
Maybe a false positive, since I didn’t see any port in the listening state opened while running the command, but still I wonder if you can have a similar warning if you compile the source with VC.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
@tpierron: If you read the description here http://research.sunbelt-software.com/threatdisplay.aspx?name=RemoteAdmin.Win32.NetCat&threatid=47713 it appears that netcat itself is flagged in the enterprise versions as it’s not something that “normal” users would be running on a business network. They probably flag other networking tools too.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Here are some more details
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:wIIgDd8B6xQJ:packetstormsecurity.org/papers/virus/Taking_Back_Netcat.pdf+netcat+marked+by+virus+checker&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk&client=firefox-a