newbie question and raw sock scanning

["Mike ." <dmciscobgp () hotmail com>]

if this has ben gone over before, i'm sorry. i'm just a bit confused. so i am always told nmap cannot scan localhost 
due to lack of raw sock support. ok, so i couldn't really do a UDP or SYN scan like i wanted, but i still was able to 
do a localhost scan last night (connect) with no problem. i am on win7, should we stop telling people you CANNOT scan 
localhost and maybe refine those words with "only connect"? like i said, if this was gone over back in the day when 
this came up, i'm sorry. last thing, and again, hopefully not too newbish---is there any real difference in scanning a 
loopback vs my direct 192 ip? they are technically not the same, correct? i was curious if the scan does anything 
different between the 2. i had no issues scanning both last night
thank youm|ke

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