On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Andrew Blevins wrote:
> I recently ran a few scans, and made sure I had the "safe checks" button
> selected. Nessus ran the RFPoison check anyway. Does this safe check button
> override the unsafe checks if I have by default all the plugins selected? Or
> does safe checks do something else?
> RFPoison is definitly NOT safe! :-) As I'm sure you all know.
> I found it to work just as advertised, it blew the lid of some stuff. . . .
> Anyway, anyone have any answers to the "safe checks" question?
The GUI tells you that safe checks refer to those test that can be skipped
based on the information taken from banners. RFPoison does NOT fall into
that category.
So if you allow dangerous plugins you get dangerous plugins. Untill now no
better word has been found for the current "safe checks" to express its
meaning more clearly.
Hugo.
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