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Re: does nessus select plugins according to the remote OS when doing a s

Subject: Re: does nessus select plugins according to the remote OS when doing a scan ??
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:32:37 -0400
At 03:17 PM 7/30/2006, George A. Theall wrote:
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.

A good paper on this is available at:

http://www.tenablesecurity.com/images/pdfs/reliability_and_uniqueness_of_nessus.pdf

The paper speaks mostly about Nessus 2, but the basic logic
of NASL and vuln checking is similar in Nessus 3.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security



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