RE: MBSA 1.2

["Nagy Gergely" <gergely.nagy () is-energy hu>]

Does Nessus run on XP?
How can I set it to scan all the Microsoft patches on the given system and
vulnerabilites?


-----Original Message-----
From: Rohan Amin [mailto:rohan () rohanamin com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:51 AM
To: Nagy Gergely
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: MBSA 1.2

A colleague and I have had success with using Nessus
(http://www.nessus.org) for this purpose.  Just modify smb_login.nasl
to use the various Administrator passwords that you have.  Nessus
already includes a few checks for some patches, but if you need more
you can always write some (its quite easy using NASL).  Of course, you
are trusting the registry to give you accurate information but it
might be better than nothing.

Hope this helps,

Rohan





On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Nagy Gergely wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a very heterogenous infrasturcture, with most PC's logged into NDS.
> What is the use of MBSA (that requires local admin priv) if all the PC's
> have different local admin passwords?
> In this case, am I not able to scan the situation on the whole network?
> Then what else tool could I use to determine the state of patches?
>
> Br,
>
> Gery
>
>
>
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