On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Stuart Eddleston wrote: > Microsoft also released a new tool today. The Microsoft Baseline > Security Analyzer, Its only good For MS Servers of course but seems to > do a reasonably credible job of scanning its servers for > vulnerabilities - Whats nice about it is that it points you at the > fixes and patches for the problems it finds so its fairly idiot proof.
HFNetcheck was a necessary and incredibly good thing. Idiot-proofing it is simply of incremental value. > > I hate to say it but it really seems that they're trying to get things > a little better One might however wonder about the conflict-of-interest between producing security tools to secure products and producing security-poor products that need such tools. Making money off of errors, omissions and lack of configurability in your own products isn't exactly saving the world. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions [EMAIL PROTECTED] which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
