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Re: False Positive - Nessus ID 25166?

Subject: Re: False Positive - Nessus ID 25166?
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:45:25 +0100

On Mar 28, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Kofoed, George x55379 wrote:

No worries, thanks for the feedback. But just to clarify, you’re saying that it will be mandatory to have Domain Admin credentials configured in Nessus in order perform patch checks against remote Windows hosts in future? Or just to run Nessus on Windows? Or both?


We've been recommending for a while to provide Nessus with domain credentials to perform the scans, as checking for a file version on disk is way more reliable than checking through the registry.

So domain admin credentials SHOULD be configured in Nessus to perform a full patch audit (but you don't need to be a domain admin to run Nessus).


-- Renaud
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