After having to explain to clients why all their printers were printing the word "sex" (thanks to a password check from one of the plugins), I decided not to run Nessus against any future printers.
Here's the script I use to clean up my IP list before feeding it to Nessus. It's not pretty, but it works for me. http://www.foofus.net/m0j0/tools/rPrinter2.pl http://www.foofus.net/m0j0/tools/nmap-printers -j On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 07:25, Chuck Fullerton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If the NMAP scan can determine that it's an HP Printer can that be > correlated with the actual plugin that's effecting the printer and be > marked as dangerous? At least until we can go to HP and request a > patch.. > > Thoughts? > > Chuck Fullerton > CISSP, CSS1, CCNP, CCNA, CCDA, CNA, A+ > Network Engineer > Ficomp, Inc. > 3015 Advance Lane > Colmar, PA 18915 > Office 215-997-3879 > Cell 610-780-7248 > Pager 1-800-759-8352 PIN 1030063 > TextPaging [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > FICOMP, Inc. - Confidential and Proprietary > > > > - -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 8:03 AM > To: Baumgartner Christoph > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chuck Fullerton > Subject: RE: Nessus vs. HP Laser Printers. > > > Quoting Baumgartner Christoph : > > We made the same experience. The only solution is a reset of the HP > > laser printers after they hook (it seems that HP ink-jets are not > > affected). I would test the HP laser printers during working hours > > because the users/super users can reset/restart the printers if > > they are informed before. > > > > I would appreciate if the author of the plugin could fix the > > problem. > > I'd think it would be better if HP could fix the problem. > > If it's the syn scan & not a plugin, it can't be made a dangerous/DoS > test to be > disabled via the GUI. > > > - -- > http://www.cirt.net/ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > > iQA/AwUBPh7Jw7OJO5KNoAL1EQIc/gCgqy40PtJpYdHhv4rartqgemR2KIoAn3Tf > e51ReZt8LhTm2VClIcYJCX2Q > =myvm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Joe Mondloch Network Security Engineer Berbee 5520 Research Park Drive Madison, WI 53711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608.298.1096 Fax 608.288.3007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
