Re: %! is not a valid Win32 application

[ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo () zoho com>]

On 07/24/2017 11:11 AM, Daniel Miller wrote:
> Todd,
>
> The last version of Nmap that works on Windows XP is 7.12. The decision 
> to drop XP support was not made lightly. In the end, we had to consider:
>
> * Lack of NDIS 6 support, meaning that Windows XP users can't use the 
> new Npcap packet capture library with its increased speed and new features.
> * Newer socket management features like Poll and IOCP that make NSE and 
> version detection much faster on newer Windows versions.
> * Microsoft support for WIndows XP ending April 2014.
> * Cost of testing and maintaining a code base across so many Windows API 
> versions.
>
> Your options, then, are to run Nmap 7.12, build Nmap yourself for 
> Windows XP, or use a supported OS. We will try to make it more clear 
> during installation that Windows XP is not supported.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan

Hi Dan,

Thank you!

I just downloaded 7.12 from
    https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.12-setup.exe

I don't do much XP NMap work, but occasionally
I need it (mainly to see if ports are open
and such).  So I will keep a copy of 7.12 next
to the latest version.

-T



> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:25 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo () zoho com 
> <mailto:ToddAndMargo () zoho com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear NMap Community,
>
>     I installed
>
>     https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.50-setup.exe
>     <https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.50-setup.exe>
>
>     on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine.  During the install, I
>     got told that NDIS6 was not supported.  I did not care
>     as the machine was using NDIS5 drivers.  The install
>     completed normally.
>
>     When I fired it up and ran
>
>          nmap -p [port] --open -PN -sV -oG ssh_hosts [ip or network]
>
>     (yes I made the substitutions in the brackets.)
>
>     I got back:
>
>           "%! is not a valid Win32 application"
>
>     Any words of wisdom?
>
>
>     Many thanks,
>     -T

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