Hi George,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George A. Theall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 09 January 2008 14:03
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Ward, Rob
> Subject: Re: Nessus Crashing Novell Filestore Servers
> 
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 7:13 AM, Ward, Rob wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I ran a Nessus scan yesterday on our Novell Servers and two of
> > them crashed. I've run the same scan, service affecting plugins
> > turned off, using Nessus 2 many times without incident. This
> > happened after upgrading to Nessus 3 on RHEL 5.
> 
> Which version of Nessus 3 were you using? Did you enable safe checks
> and/or thorough tests?

I used nessusd version 3.0.6 with safe checks enabled but not thorough tests. I 
ran the scan with Nessus Windows client version 3.0.6.1.

> 
> Btw, there is a plugin that should detect Netware and prevent it from
> being scanned to avoid such issues -- plugin #22482
> (dont_scan_netware.nasl). By default, it's set to prevent such scans.
> Did you configure Nessus to indeed scan Netware? If not, were any of
> TCP ports 80, 81, or 8009 open on a target?

Ports 80 and 8009 were open on both targets that crashed.

Regards

Rob
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