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I don't want to say who, but other commercial products DO have this capability.

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I think it's an incredible idea since most of the underground script tools
are doing it...  Why cant commercial software be that intelligent?  Seems
pretty simple.

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"Wheeler, Patrick (ISSAtlanta)" wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the question. "Divide and conquer" is the best approach -
divide
> up your hosts into host lists based on OS, and then scan the host lists
with
> the appropriate OS-specific policy. 

Does anyone else here think it unreasonable that a scanner detect the OS and
run tests appropriate for the discovered OS? Could this be an on/off switch
enabling this behavior for those who like to run all tests against all
platforms?


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Gary Flynn
Security Engineer - Technical Services
James Madison University

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