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Table Of Contents
Legal Notices................................................................................................................................9
End User License Agreement....................................................................................................9
1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................12
1.1 Why Worry About Unsecured Modems? .....................................................................12
1.2 PhoneSweep: A Better Telephone Line Scanner ..........................................................12
1.3 New Features in PhoneSweep 4.4.................................................................................13
1.4 Appropriate and Ethical Use of PhoneSweep...............................................................13
2 A Tour Of PhoneSweep ......................................................................................................15
2.1 The PhoneSweep Window............................................................................................15
2.2 PhoneSweep Icon Quick Reference Chart....................................................................16
2.2.1 Top Horizontal Toolbar Icons .............................................................................16
2.2.2 Vertical Toolbar Icons.........................................................................................17
2.2.3 Bottom Toolbar Icons..........................................................................................17
2.2.4 Results Tab Icons ................................................................................................18
2.2.5 Phone Numbers Tab Icons ..................................................................................19
2.3 PhoneSweep Configuration Options.............................................................................19
2.3.1 Saving and undoing changes to configuration options........................................19
2.3.2 Popup Menus.......................................................................................................19
2.4 Profiles ..........................................................................................................................20
2.4.1 Number of Phone Numbers per profile Limits....................................................20
2.4.2 MySQL 3.23.0 Limits on Profile Size, Number of Profiles................................21
2.5 Dialing Rules ................................................................................................................21
2.6 Levels of Effort.............................................................................................................21
2.7 Brute Force Username/Password Guessing..................................................................22
2.7.1 Username/password recycling.............................................................................23
2.8 Importing and Exporting PhoneSweep Data ................................................................23
2.9 Single Call Detect (SCD)..............................................................................................24
2.9.1 How SCD improves scan speed and accuracy ....................................................24
2.9.2 Many off-the-shelf modems support SCD ..........................................................25
2.9.3 Modems that do not support SCD.......................................................................25
2.10 Controlling when phone numbers are called ................................................................26
2.10.1 Time Periods .......................................................................................................26
2.10.2 Using time periods to control the start of a scan .................................................26
2.10.3 The Blackout period ............................................................................................27
2.10.4 Controlling Sweeps through the use of other Time Options...............................27
2.10.5 Schedule Sweep Start and Stop on the currently open profile ............................27
2.11 The phonesweep.ini File ...............................................................................................27
2.12 Emergency Number Screening .....................................................................................27
2.13 Possible Testing Injuries...............................................................................................28
3 Installation and Setup .........................................................................................................30
3.1 System Requirements ...................................................................................................30