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Re: Windows 64bit Nessus Targets

Subject: Re: Windows 64bit Nessus Targets
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:37:17 +0200

On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Lovering, Ian J wrote:
My question(s) is this:

What code is the architecture test protecting?
Is there something used by the patch checking plugins that does not  
run correctly or gives incorrect responses if run against a 64bit  
system?

Can Nessus be safe and reliable when used for patch checking against  
64bit Windows targets?


Nessus only supports local patch checks (MS patches) against Vista and  
2008 on a 64bit system.
Current 32 bit checks can not be used against 64bit XP/2003 because  
file version numbers are, most of the time, totally different.


Nicolas
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