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Appendix A: Glossary
<CR>: Carriage Return. A non-printing ASCII character meaning “Move cursor to beginning of line/end
of command.” Often used in conjunction with a Line Feed character, i.e. <CRLF>.
<LF>: Line Feed. A non-printing ASCII character meaning “move cursor to next line”. Often used in
conjunction with a Carriage Return character.
24-Hour Format: A way of expressing times that unambiguously designates the time of day without
using the suffixes AM or PM. To express a time of day in 24-hour format, add 12 to all times
after 11:59 a.m. For example, 3:00 PM becomes 15:00. Midnight is designated as 0:00.
PhoneSweep uses 24-hour format to specify the time periods used to control specific dialing
behavior.
911 Screening: A PhoneSweep feature that attempts to prevent accidentally calling 911 and other
emergency numbers specified by the user. Sandstorm does not warrant that 911 screening will
prevent all calls to emergency numbers.
Access Code: A phone number that allows access to a restricted service, such as off-site or long-distance
calling. If PhoneSweep must dial an access code before or after each phone number in a profile,
use the “dial prefix” or “dial suffix” options on the Dialing sub-tab.
Administrator: On Windows NT, the level of privilege that allows users write access to all files, to
install new services, and to create new users. Analogous to root on a UNIX system. Because the
hardware management device services must be installed, an Administrator user on Windows NT
must install PhoneSweep.
Anomaly: An inconsistent response that may indicate a misconfigured or unauthorized modem. For
example, a number that shifts from VOICE to CARRIER may be an intermittently available,
unsecured modem. An Anomaly Detection section can be included in the PhoneSweep report.
Appendix: A section of the PhoneSweep report that lists supporting data received about calls and devices
found.
Assigned Numbers: The list of phone numbers in a particular profile that PhoneSweep will call in the
course of a sweep.
Bi-directional parallel port: A parallel port that can be written to as well as read from. Devices attached
to a bi-directional parallel port can both receive input from the computer and return status
information.
Binary bytes: Characters not printable in ASCII, sometimes included in response strings from modems.
They are printed as numeric values in PhoneSweep reports.
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System. The ROM code that runs on startup and communicates with hardware
to load the operating system.
Blackout period: A period of time during which PhoneSweep does not make calls. A Blackout Period
can be defined without changing the time periods defined by Business Hours, Outside Hours, and
Weekends.
brutecreate.exe: a utility that allows you to set the username/password combinations stored in
bruteforce.txt.
bruteforce.txt: A file located in the top-level PhoneSweep directory that contains a list of
username/password combinations. PhoneSweep running in Penetrate mode uses these to attempt