Internet Security Scanner Started as a Shell Script

Did you know that the first version of Internet Security Scanner was a shell script? I found it in this 28 Sep 93 post by Christopher Klaus while researching the history of vulnerability scanners. From the post:

To sum it up, ISS will scan a domain grabbing essential information for

administrators to easily sort through and give them a chance to secure the

open machines on their network.



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#! /bin/sh

# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line, then feed it

# into a shell via "sh file" or similar.  To overwrite existing files,

# type "sh file -c".

# Contents:  iss iss/Bugs iss/Makefile iss/iss.1 iss/iss.c

#   iss/readme.iss iss/telnet.h iss/todo

# Wrapped by kent@sparky on Tue Sep 28 21:20:25 1993