Hi Riemer, Windows 95 is certainly not a platform that we give as much attention to as XP, 2003 or Vista. And there is no support in 95 to give Nessus credentials to do a patch audit either. If you loaded some sort of application on top of Windows 95, Nessus will audit that as well.
If you have OS fingerprint issues detecting Windows 95, it could be a few things, but often when anyone mentions VMWare, I suspect issues attempting scanning across a NAT interface. If you'd like to submit your fingerprints from scanning, please consider the below blog entry and then mailing your signatures to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2007/05/enhanced_operat.html I'd also suggest you rescan with thorough checks enabled and perhaps with more targeted ports. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security Riemer Brouwer wrote: > Dear list, > > The other day I ran Nessus against an original Windows95 distribution > (without any patches, updates or service packs installed) running on VMWare. > Surprisingly enough, it didn't find any weakness, just 1 open port (139) and > 6 notes. Also, it recognized the operating system wrongly as a Windows NT4. > > Could it be Nessus does not (or has stopped) scanning for weaknesses in > Windows 95, or am I doing something wrong? If the first, then starting what > Windows version, Nessus can be used? > > Thanks, > > Riemer Brouwer, MBA CISA CISM CISSP ISSMP > IT Audit Manager > American University of Beirut > > Tel. +961-1-340460 / 350000, ext. 2353 > P.O. Box 11-0236 / Internal Audit Dept. > Beirut, Lebanon > www.aub.edu.lb > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
