Re: Nmap - 3.50 changes mstask.exe?

["Jeremiah Cornelius" <jeremiah () nur net>]

> Not sure if this is the best list for this, but I am in a bit of a jam.
>
> I just downloaded the new NMAP v. 3.50 and ran it on my internal network. My IT manager is freaking out.  He says >my 
> scan replaced mstask.exe on the machines I scanned.
>
> Anybody else seen this behavior?
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No.

Simply not possible without a trojaned nmap.   Did you build from source?  Even if this were not so, insecure.org 
hasn't got a trojaned binary!

I think your manager needs to revisit the argument of "correlation vs.. causation":
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/anthropology/ANT333/Lecture%202/sld029.htm

--jer

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