If you’ve heard of Nmap, it’s a very powerful, and in my opinion the best security scanner available. Last time, it used to only run on Linux, but now it is available for Windows as well except no graphical interface is included, so you need to run nmap.exe from a DOS/command window. Everything is in command line and there’s a long list of command lines available for you to use. Can be quite tough and confusing to use if you’re a newbie.

There used to be Nmapwin and also eEye NmapNT that provides the graphical user interface for Nmap. All you need to do is just click the checkbox available and enter the hostname or IP address. However, both GUI for Nmap is obsolete and no longer works with the latest Nmap. Thankfully there’s another one that keeps its free Nmap frontend up to date with Nmap….


NmapView is a Windows frontend for Nmap the free security scanner made by Fyodor.

Dedicated to all those that, like the author of NmapView, love Nmap and use Microsoft Windows. NmapView works with Nmap version 4.x and is compatible with Windows 2000, XP , 2003 and Vista.

Features of NmapView

Automatic composition of the string of command based on selection of checkbox, textbox, etc

Automatic selection of checkbox and textbox, etc. based on tightens of insert comand string

In the composition commands, the options of version 4.20 of Nmap are previewed all

Supported version NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) by Diman Todorov

Of every option or parameter one detailed description through ToolTipHelp is supplied

The configuration parameters that preview text are history between the various sessions. (The story memory use Windows user login section)

The option and the parameters are distributed in logical section (Target specification, Host Discover, Scan Techniques, etc.) based on the documentation of Fyodor

Management list of commands throught rows database XML

Callback of editor external for .nse script

Colorized: coloration and font combination, of the output of nmap, free and of any complexity through editor of Regex (Regular expressions) filters

It is possible to start more commands nmap at the same time. You execute yourself in different task and windows

One shot clipboard copy Command, for express past in shell dos

The historical archives, of the output commands

The Windows of command report, the standard flow output, than the flow of error

View in hierarchical tree Structure the raw XML data. (output ad file)

The output file XML , if present, it is intercepted ad loaded in the Tab “XML File Vew” to the end of the command

Source and info available in FORUM zone

In order for NmapView to work, you must download:
1. Winpcap
2. NmapView
3. Nmap for Windows from Insecure.org
4. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. If you already have it installed, then you can skip this. Otherwise it’s a must for NmapView to run.

Install Winpcap, then extract NmapView to a new folder. Extract Nmap to a new folder and place it IN NmapView folder. Run NmapView.exe and start scanning!

[ Download NmapView ]