Comments on: Netcat in windows

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:52:13 +0000

Thank you, man! I have been looking for it for days, since Jon’s site appeared to be down. Cheers!

By: MiW

MiW — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:30:33 +0000

Thanks for the link dude! Its random awesome blogs that do things like this that make the internet a better place.

Cheers!

By: stu

stu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:47:46 +0000

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

By: stu

stu — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:45:49 +0000

@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.

By: tpierron

tpierron — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:18:14 +0000

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.

By: stu

stu — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:53:07 +0000

@Madman: I just tried redownloading the first link and it seems to work ok.

By: Valamer Kutayami

Valamer Kutayami — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:51:27 +0000

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

By: Madman

Madman — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:11:10 +0000

Too bad these links no longer work. Only downloads 65,536 bytes and ZIP complains of missing signature and cannot open it.

By: Abel Cheung

Abel Cheung — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:47:40 +0000

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

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:03:33 +0000

It won’t go down. :p