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Re: Question on "Do not scan fragile devices" plug-in (fwd)

Subject: Re: Question on "Do not scan fragile devices" plug-in (fwd)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:23:30 -0400
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:42:31AM +0100, Nelson, C.M. wrote:

Today I have noticed for the firsts time that in
the "Settings" family I have "do not scan printers" enabled (although
printers continue to be scanned

Which revision of plugin #11933, dont_scan_printers.nasl are you using?
If it's not 1.3.1, you may want to update your plugins; an earlier
iteration had a logic error, as Doug Nordwall pointed out last week:

  http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2006-October/msg00013.html

the "Settings" family I have "do not scan printers" enabled (although
printers continue to be scanned - surely it is by scanning that they can
be identified as printers anyway?). 

They are scanned only to a limited extent (eg, banners for telnet, ftp,
 http, snmp, etc) to allow Nessus to determine that the devices are, in
fact, printers.

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com
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