Re: Why is my printer not excluded from the scan?

Le Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:39:08 +0100,
jellybambam <jellybambam@gmail.com> a Ãcrit :

> I am using Nessus 3.2.0 with Client 3.0.0 under XP.  I have created a
> policy and have not enabled the 'Scan Network Printers' however on my
> test network the printer is scanned and it shoots out 2 sheets during
> the scan.

Are the pages blank? If yes, try using the SYN scanner instead of the
TCP scanner. If this works, I'm afraid I cannot propose a better
solution.

> I am leading up to scanning an estate of a few thousand devices, but
> would like to guarantee excluding printer scanning as much as
> practically possible - is there anyway I can investigate further why
> my printer was scanned?

The nessus report you got on this IP may help us. 

> I may be able to exclude the printer IP addresses but they are not
> neatly presented within the IP scope, however I could use nmap -O and
> parse the results to get the majority of printer IPs.

Using nmap against printers is not a good idea.
Does this printer answers to SNMP, by the way?

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