Calin's Humble Scanner - User Guide

## Hunt Mode Scanning

General

In this mode, `CHScanner`, scans any host that tries to enter in contact with the host machine.
The methods used for scanning are selected by the user, when Hunt mode begins, using the Hunt Dialog window.

The scanning progress

After receiving one of the following packets:

- an ARP Request packet;
- an ICMP Echo Request (ping) packet;
- a TCPv4 SYN packet.

`CHScanner` will scan the sender with the methods selected at the begining of the Hunt mode.
A host is scanned only when the first "trigger" packet is received from that host.

The results are displayed on the screen. The list of scanned host is NOT sorted by name and/or IP address. The order is given by the time when the scan was performed.

As usual, the results can be exported as .xml file.

Geographic location data

Using a database derived from MaxMind's GeoIP Lite csv database, for speed considerations, I have implemented an IP location detection algorithm. I did not used their API but I have writted one my self, based on the structure of my own database.
The provided database can be updated by importing the new data from MaxMind's GeoIP Lite csv database. The update procedure is described in the next paragraph.
The copyright for source database is in the Third-Party contribution section.

Update for the geographic location data

To update the geographic database perform the following steps:

- download MaxMind's GeoIP Lite csv database;
- extract the `GeoIPCountryWhois.csv` in `CHScanner`'s root directory;
- click the Tools button;
- and select Import GeoIP Data.

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