I was going to say the same thing Joseph did, but didn't want to deal with
the flames for appearing to support Microsoft on something ;).

Without a competent and complete analysis to accompany the Nessus output,
it doesn't tell you much of anything useful. I'm sure that if this got on
Slashdot or a Windows site, it would start all sorts of FUD from both
camps.

/jgw



> Greetings,
>
> That guy's Nessus scan for georgewbush.com has obviously fallen into a
> honeypot/IDS tarpit. The Nessus scan returned results from well-known
> (and OLD) IIS, OmniHTTPd, and Cobalt Linux vulnerabilities, as well as
> obvious CGI vulns. Disregarding the fact that IIS doesn't run on Cobalt
> Web Appliances (Linux), there's no way that any administrator would
> allow those out-of-date, unpatched, scripts to be run on a modern machine.
>
> Nessus is indeed a pretty cool tool, but only if you know how to
> interpret its output.
>
> Never place too much faith in anything you see, read or hear that you
> cannot personally reproduce.


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