possible scanning agent

[wkitty42]

following a link given by claus, i was checking out some open proxy list sites... one of them even had a link to an application to scan for open proxies and also to act as a proxy server... i'll not mention the name of the program here so as to not bring it to the forefront in the search engines... but i will list the useragents that it can go by...

Internet Explorer 4.01
Netscape Navigator 4.05
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)
Mozilla/4.06 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)
Mozilla/4.06 [en] (Win95; I ;Nav)
Mozilla/4.06 [en] (WinNT; I)

it'll scan http and socks servers on whatever address ranges and port ranges you specify... a quick look turned up a few bugs and speeling errors ;) but over all, it seems to work as advertised... the only real problem i find is no documentation and nothing to tell you how the required verification list is to be formatted...

anyway, the point of this post is to give a heads up for tha above useragent strings and note that they may be this tool scanning your system for an open proxy server...

[coyote]

Thanx for the info.
Too bad there are people out there still using IE4 because blocking that version would cut the BOL list by half.