Patrice Arnal wrote:
> Hello
> I begin to use intensively credentials to check machines.
> Recently, in order to reduce the network stress / false alerts caused by 
> the network scan,
> I checked out the "nessus TCP scanner" and checked in the "Netstat scanner"
> 
> I noticed that the netstat scanner does not appear in the report, and 
> that, apparently,
> only defaults ports were scanned, as if no scan took place.
> 
> The credentials are OK and the account used has "local admin" rights on 
> the target :
> I get a correct list for missing patches and the report tells me that 
> "it was possible to log on the server"
> 
> Client : NessusClient 1 for Debian
> Server : Nessus 3.0.5 on a Suse server
> Target : W2k3
> 
> Apparently, it works well on Solaris targets : netstat shows up in the 
> scanner list, and I did not
> notice any missing ports.
> 
> Any idea of further testings...

The netstat port scanner only runs under UNIX OSes.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

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