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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 16:32:37 -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.
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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