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Business Hours, Outside Hours, & Weekends
(Any time period)
30
A sample file that would dial the numbers 555-1212 during business hours, 555-1213 during any time
period, and set 555-1214 to use the default import value would be:
555-1212 <Tab>2
555-1213 <Tab>30
555-1213
Note that the <Tab> is an ASCII Tab formatting character (control-I, decimal value 9).
6.1.4 Default Import Time Period
Phone Sweep supports a default time period, which is applied to any numbers imported without an
accompanying time period value. If you are importing lists of phone numbers from other applications,
typically a PhoneSweep time period will not be included, and the default time period will be applied
during the import.
The default value is set to Dial During Any Time Period, which corresponds to a value of 30 when
using the Default Import Time Period option. You can change the default value via the Dialing sub-tab,
or by creating an entry for DEFAULT-IMPORT-TIMEPERIOD variable in the [vars] section of the
phonesweep.ini file. (See Section 4.4.5, Setting time periods for imported phone numbers)
Caution: If you do not explicitly specify a time period code, you should avoid creating phone numbers
that include double spaces or a comma followed by a space. PhoneSweep will interpret them as separator
characters and not import the phone number correctly.
In general, the use of comma-space combinations inside phone numbers in input files can cause problems.
If you want to put comma-space combinations in your phone numbers, we recommend the use of tab-
separated lines with explicit time period values.
6.2 Importing Brute Force Information
A list of username/password combinations is used for guesses in Penetrate mode when PhoneSweep
attempts to break into remote systems. PhoneSweep stores this list internally for each profile, but initially
populates the internal database from the file bruteforce.txt. Although a starter list is provided with
PhoneSweep, you will probably need to customize bruteforce.txt to reflect username/password pairs
appropriate for your site. PhoneSweep offers the following options for changing the bruteforce.txt file:
• Import Username/Password pairs from either your own custom files or systemdefault.txt, which
contains default Username/Password pairs for many systems.
• Enter Username/Password pairs via the Setup-> Effort tab. When you are finished, you can
export the internal Username/Password pairs into a new file.
• Use brutecreate.exe to combine usernames and passwords from separate files to add to
bruteforce.txt (brutecreate.exe can also reset bruteforce.txt to its default values from
systemdefault.txt).
• Edit the bruteforce.txt file directly.