Found NMAPSERV.EXE running in Task Manager - spyware?

[Hell Billy]

Looking through Processes in Task Manager on my WinXP machine, and
noticed NMAPSERV.EXE.

I have NMap Win installed on my PC, which I downloaded to play around
with; but is it necessary for NMAPSERV.EXE to be running in the
background, even though NMap is not open or being used?

I checked nmapserv.log, and it didn't seem to be collecting anything
important about me; is NMAPSERV.EXE some kind of spyware that came witn
NMap Win?

[|3iff //ullins]

lucat bene, der Hell Billy <hell@billy.com> goh, a hunnert truxx
inero, sumwit kowz n' sumwit duxx on Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:06:03 GMT:

>Looking through Processes in Task Manager on my WinXP machine, and
>noticed NMAPSERV.EXE.
>
>I have NMap Win installed on my PC, which I downloaded to play around
>with; but is it necessary for NMAPSERV.EXE to be running in the
>background, even though NMap is not open or being used?
>
>I checked nmapserv.log, and it didn't seem to be collecting anything
>important about me; is NMAPSERV.EXE some kind of spyware that came witn
>NMap Win?
>
http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/n...win_1_2_12.asp


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[The person you think]

"|3iff //ullins" <biff.mullins3@3premeditatedfun.com> wrote in message
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> lucat bene, der Hell Billy <hell@billy.com> goh, a hunnert truxx
> inero, sumwit kowz n' sumwit duxx on Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:06:03 GMT:
>
> >Looking through Processes in Task Manager on my WinXP machine, and
> >noticed NMAPSERV.EXE.
> >
> >I have NMap Win installed on my PC, which I downloaded to play around
> >with; but is it necessary for NMAPSERV.EXE to be running in the
> >background, even though NMap is not open or being used?
> >
> >I checked nmapserv.log, and it didn't seem to be collecting anything
> >important about me; is NMAPSERV.EXE some kind of spyware that came witn
> >NMap Win?
> >
> http://www.pestpatrol.com/PestInfo/n...win_1_2_12.asp
>

The only problem with that is that pestpatrol isn't right in this case.

You don't NEED the service to be running all the time, for sure. It is easy
to stop the service running at ANY time without having to remove it then
enable it again when you want to run Nmap.

I don't trust much of what Pestpatrol has to say, though, to be totally
honest.

[data64]

Hell Billy <hell@billy.com> wrote in news:%eThb.731942$Ho3.178202
@sccrnsc03:

> Looking through Processes in Task Manager on my WinXP machine, and
> noticed NMAPSERV.EXE.
>
> I have NMap Win installed on my PC, which I downloaded to play around
> with; but is it necessary for NMAPSERV.EXE to be running in the
> background, even though NMap is not open or being used?
>
> I checked nmapserv.log, and it didn't seem to be collecting anything
> important about me; is NMAPSERV.EXE some kind of spyware that came witn
> NMap Win?
>

The service is for automatically running scans. You do not need the service
unless you need this functionality. AFAIK, it is not spyware. You can turn
it off from the "Service" tab in Nmap Win.

data64

[The person you think]

"data64" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:Xns9413BBD5B99BDData64Bigfootcom@130.133.1.4. ..
> Hell Billy <hell@billy.com> wrote in news:%eThb.731942$Ho3.178202
> @sccrnsc03:
>
> > Looking through Processes in Task Manager on my WinXP machine, and
> > noticed NMAPSERV.EXE.
> >
> > I have NMap Win installed on my PC, which I downloaded to play around
> > with; but is it necessary for NMAPSERV.EXE to be running in the
> > background, even though NMap is not open or being used?
> >
> > I checked nmapserv.log, and it didn't seem to be collecting anything
> > important about me; is NMAPSERV.EXE some kind of spyware that came witn
> > NMap Win?
> >
>
> The service is for automatically running scans. You do not need the
service
> unless you need this functionality. AFAIK, it is not spyware. You can turn
> it off from the "Service" tab in Nmap Win.
>
> data64

.....or from SERVICES in Windows.

[Jay T. Blocksom]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:23:37 +1000, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, "The person
you think" <spamis@the****house.com> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> I don't trust much of what Pestpatrol has to say, though, to be totally
> honest.
>

As well you shouldn't:

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