Hello,
I\'m a system admin that would like to use this in my organization.
My company is currently in a mixed mode environment, half on the domain and half off. I plan on getting everyone on it as time goes on, so I\'m really only interested in getting this working for the domained folks at this time.
I downloaded this program and took it home to my personal domain. I installed it and scanned the machine next to me, no problem. However, I then enabled the firewall of the machine next to me and it stopped everything dead in it\'s tracks. I added my administrator credentials, same result.
By default, users firewalls are enabled on XP installs, and users turn them on and off on their laptops when they travel, etc. If all it takes to kill these software scans is a user turning on the firewall, I don\'t see how this could ever become useful in my organization. Sure, I could do a group policy and knock out all the users firewalls, but people that travel need them in order to protect themselves.
Am I missing something or will this only work when the firewall is off on the client machines? Does this software have the capability to push some kind of agent to the clients through AD to ensure the port needed is open? I\'d love to use this but I just don\'t see how I could get around this issue.