> Maybe I'm missing something...   If so, I'll step back and continue my
> lurking and learning from your valuable experiences.
> 
> I would rather have Nessus test for the underlying vulnerability that the
> patches are supposed to resolve, rather than test for the existence of the
> patch itself.    The debate raging on concerning the methodology of the
> dedicated applictions (Hfnetchk, MBSA, UpdateExpert, et al) and their
> effectiveness is a good one.  But to me, it's more of a change management
> issue than a vulnerability issue.    I'd be willing to let Shavlik, MS and
> the others to work out that issue and work on it from the internal view.

well, in conjuncitn wiht the safe_checks() options, someone could add
tests, (based on attack signatures and hacker scripts)
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Michael Scheidell
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