Netcat is the TCP/IP swiss army knife available since 199612/15/05 - Symantec is now detecting Netcat as HackTool.NetCat. The default action of Norton AntiVirus is to delete the program so be careful that it doesn't get removed. Netcat is no more an attack tool than any file transfer or remote access program. It does not exploit any vulnerability, contain any malicious code, or attempt to hide its presence. It is ironic that Symantec lists netcat on their own security tools library where it is described as, "Windows NT/9x Netcat is the port of the simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP transport protocols." netcat 1.11 for Windows is released 12/27/04 - There is a buffer overflow in the -e option of the windows version of netcat. Version 1.11 fixes this issue. readme describing the basics of Netcat and a couple of the NT options. Download Netcat for NT 1.11 now and give it a try. Send any bug reports to weld@vulnwatch.org.
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Hobbit's release of netcat. If you want the full power of netcat along with the ability to run shell scripts this is what you need. The lastest version is 1.1 and is dated 3/20/96. nc110.tgz contains unix source code, documentation and many scripts. The original unix README file contains everything you need to know about how to use netcat and what great network manipulations you can achieve. This is the netcat bible.
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