On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Sascha Schnitzler wrote:
> I'm wondering how Plugins that check for a local vunlarability (e.g. the
> availability of a special patch, program etc) work remotely. I looked at
> the source of two randomly chosen plugins, they seem to connect via smb
> to the remote host and do their checks with remote registry lookups. Is
> this the current method to these checks or are there any other techniques?
It is a new feature in Nessus 2.1.0 (experimental). You can find more
information at:
http://www.nessus.org/doc/nessus_ssh_local.html
~Jay
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