This amounts to me a form of censorship and if it is not remedied, I hope to see a lawsuit soon. I have signed the petition to ask symantec to remove this definition (available here: ) and fully expect this to be remedied. The idea that a tool designed to get information on a network is to be classified with the likes of viruses (which demonstrate no value to a computer user) is proposterous and an insult to my intellegence having chosen to have the tool on my computer only to have it removed like a parent taking a child's toy away. I do not believe there is a valid excuse here for detecting my tools as dangerous. To my anger and frustration, my ipscan tool was gone. This evening while configuring a serial-to-wireless ip bridge on a medical device, I needed the ability to scan the scope after configuring the unit as it is using dhcp and there is no other way to determine the IP post configuration.
Angry ip scann install#
If that's the case why does it get quarantined automatically? And how does putting Angry IP scanner in the same category as applications that install themselves without asking give me more control? "SR fully understands that the use of these tools is legitimate for network administrators and their purpose is not to decide on behalf of them what tools they want to use in their environment but instead to allow more control on the use of such tools"
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There are more than 25 alternatives to Angry IP Scanner for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone. I'm refusing to let this drop with my account manager and I won't give in until either they remove Angry IP scanner from their definitions or my company is no longer using SAV. Angry IP Scanner is described as 'Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP address and port scanner' and is a popular Network Monitor in the Network & Admin category. It doesn't take much for the department to lose confidence in an application and I still get comments about the memory leak in an earlier release of SAV. If Symantec feel it's ok to block legitimate applications then what's to stop them doing it again and again? There are a few hundred users in my IT department alone, and I don't want them coming to me every week to have another tool unblocked.
That's annoying enough on it's own but I feel that that there's a much larger principal at stake here.
Angry ip scann full#
Now I can download and use the scanner but whenever a full system scan runs it still gets quarantined, although it does allow me to undo it. It took a few days and just when I'd got the exclusion fixed they recategorized it from hacktool to other and I had to do it again. Configuring the exception wasn't working so I had to work with a Symantec support technician to fix it. I have to say I'm very annoyed about this too.
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