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RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner)
From: "Steve" <zen6696 () zen co uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:27:06 +0100
I have had a similar experience with Retina, If you have authenticated to the target system then you do get a different set of results than if you have not authenticated. I have never used their tech support so I can't comment on that but I feel their documentation is a bit poor. My overall opinion is that used in conjunction with nessus it's a handy VA tool to have in the toolkit. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Peter Wood [mailto:peterw () firstbase co uk] Sent: 21 April 2004 07:55 To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) We found that Retina seems to give false positives if you are logged in to the target system (or have implicit access e.g. as Domain Admin). However with no authentication on the target it gives reliable results. I have assumed that it is checking the existence of specific files on the target rather than whether the respective services are running ... As for their tech support, it hasn't been great but at leats we get replies which is more than we did with ISS Internet Scanner problems :-\ Pete At 10:37 20/04/2004 -0400, clarke-cummings () columbus rr com wrote:
Hello Everyone, We recently began evaluating eEye's Retina product for our
vulnerability
assessment tool. We have found the results to be very inconsistent, showing us vulnerable to issues that have been patched. We've
verified the
patches manually, with MBSA, HFNETCHK, and LanGuard. eEye didn't have
a
good answer as to why the results were so inconsistent. Any guesses? Also, how is their support response for those that are customers? As
a
trial customer they aren't a very impressive organization. Thanks in advance for the help. Cheers, Clarke -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
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Current thread:
- Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) clarke-cummings () columbus rr com (Apr 20)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Adam Tuliper (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Frederic Charpentier (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Román Ramírez (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Peter Wood (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Steve (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Bojan Zdrnja (Apr 22)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Steve (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Shawn Edwards (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Bobby . Clarke (Apr 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Cam Beasley, ISO (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Chris Hurley (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Lovrien, Scott (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Renaud Deraison (Apr 22)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Mike Murray (Apr 22)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Shawn Edwards (Apr 22)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Robert E. Lee (Apr 22)
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