Re: NeWT Question

Thanks for the info about safe check and optimize. 

The version of NeWT is 2.2.1 and the plugins were update the same day as the 
scan ll/17/05. 

Thanks in advanced --John


-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Nicolas Pouvesle <npouvesle@tenablesecurity.com> 

> 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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