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| Subject: | Re: does nessus select plugins according to the remote OS when doing a scan ?? |
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| Date: | Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:17:58 -0400 |
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:00:05AM -0700, hic sonni wrote:
So if it detects that the remote machine is running Linux or Cisco it will ignore windows checks?
Nessus will ignore *local* checks for Windows if it can't gain access to the remote registry, which would be the case if, say, the remote is running Linux or a CISCO device. George -- theall@tenablesecurity.com _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list Nessus@list.nessus.org http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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