RE: Scanning the PCs for RPC Vulnerability

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Nadeem Rafi [mailto:nrafi () jeraisy com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:07 AM 
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com 
> Subject: [Full-disclosure] Scanning the PCs for RPC Vulnerability 
>
> I have found some faults in the scanning tools available from 
> Foundstone and Microsoft for RPC vulnerable machines. Both of 
> these tools are not error free. These tools are showing the ip 
> addresses of even those machines which are Windows 9x, 
> Windows98/Sec, Windows ME. Both tools are not free from this error.

What do you mean by this?  I haven't used the Foundstone tool, but are
you saying that the MS tool puts IPs of Win9x/ME hosts on the list of
vulnerable hosts?

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ 

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