It looks like there's two plugins that perform this check in differnt ways. Plugin 11847 called WinMX P2P check has no dependencies and relies on connecting to a port and looking the result. This is probably the plugin that would be best for your needs. You should be able to run this from the GUI and it will tell you if it finds anything. If you want to run this from the command line, go to your plugins directory and run "nasl -t [your target] winmx_detect2.nasl". Also, remember that just because it prints nothing doesn't mean it's not executing the scan, that could also mean it's being executed, but no vuln is being found on the scanned system.

The other plugin has a bunch of dependencies (it needs a valid login so it can check the registry over smb, it then runs the smb plugins, logs in and checks the registry). It's plugin 11430 called WinMX is installed.

To get the most accurate results it wouldn't be a bad idea to run both of them, depending on your enviroment though you may not have access to an account that can read the registry from the host.

Laters,
Dave King
http://www.thesecure.net


Julien Sobrier wrote:

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Hi-
There are a couple of ways to go about this as far as I know. First, the reason your scan might be failing is because the plugin you are running relies on other plugins, and possibly the port scan for it to run. So you may have to check enable dependencies and allow these checks to run before you can execute your plugin. In the Nessus Network Auditing book there's a perl script that will list the dependencies the script you're looking at needs.


A second option is to run the plugin on the command line using the "nasl" utility.

If you send the name of the plugin you're trying to run I'm sure we could give you a more exact reason on why it's not working and possibly a solution.

Later,
Dave King
www.thesecure.net


I've tried with the first in the list: P2P, WinMX

Thank you
Julien
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