Re: any news on profilesRe: Plugin 16192

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:13:09PM -0500, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:

> Hi, I snooped through the list archives and web site.   Can't seem to
> see an update on the pofiles quesitons? Are profiles implemented?
> Will they be?

You mean like a config that would allow you to scan for any vuln related 
to, say, IIS? No, there's nothing for that exactly. You may be able to 
use one of the update-nessusrc scripts (search the mailing lists if 
necessary) to achieve something like it, but probably only at a fairly 
course level.

> What I would like to do is save plugin combinations with which to
> scan hosts. The goal of this is to reduce the length of the reports
> and make it a little more presentable to non-techs.

Are you aware of "Silent Dependencies"? It's a relatively new feature in 
the unix clients that suppresses reports from plugins that you didn't 
explicitly enable. So if you only explicitly enable, say, plugin #23647, 
you'll only see a report about MS06-071 if a host is affected.

George
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