Re: NeWT Question

On Jan 25, 2006, at 10:49 AM, jfvanmeter@comcast.net wrote:

> Thanks Nicolas I wish I could, what I have is the report from a  
> third party that ran NeWT and scanned several servers (all built  
> from the same image). Generated the report and sent it to  
> management.  Now I have to figure out what is false and what is real.
>
> I've been reading that having both optimize_test and safe_checks  
> enable can generate fail hits and I know they had both enable.

optimize_test MUST be enabled.
safe_checks must be enabled too in most cases (else it may crash your  
services).


> The flash issue only shows up on one server, just like i have a hit  
> for the Guest account has to many privileges only a single hit on a  
> one server.


If the plugin has reported an error, I can only suppose 3 things :

- the version of NeWT used for the scan was old
- plugins were not up to date. Plugin 11952 had not been updated and  
the regex was not working since 10 months
- Flash was installed on this system.


Nicolas
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