ScanMe Tool

The SCANME Tool is a vulnerability scanner that can be used by any machine on the university's network to run a quick and convenient vulnerability scan to identify weaknesses or irregularities on your system. By clicking the button below, you will request a scan of the machine you are browsing with. Once that scan completes, a detailed report is then sent to the email specified in your request. It will only scan one machine per request. To automatically request a scan, simply enter in the email address you would like to recieve the report, and hit the SCANME button at the bottom of this page. A blank report usually means that you have a firewall blocking the scanners or have no externally viewable services.

While steps have been taken to make scanning safer, it is by no means a completely safe technology. Please take care when scanning critical production level machines and make sure you have permission to scan a host before you submit a scan. If you are a network administrator that would like to restrict machines from requesting scans of themselves, please contact us!

If you are a systems administrator and would like to use this tool on a machine where it may be inconvenient to use a web brower to view this page, you can easily craft an appropriate URL by setting the "scanemail" variable in the page request. You may then use a tool such as wget or lynx to request the scan.

The SCANME Tool uses the Nessus vulnerability scanner. The scan conducted is a generic one. If you require more customised settings or a different form of output from the tool, you are encouraged to visit http://www.nessus.org/ and try configuring your own copy of the tool to suit your needs. It's a free download! Additionally, if you are responsible for a network or IP at Rutgers University which you would like to see restricted from using this tool, please do not hesitate to contact us.