Probably also won't detect all Win 3.11 vulns. You shouldn't have Win95 machines in your environment.
On 3/14/08, Riemer Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies for any off-topic comment. It does, however, address the issue > that Nessus is unable to properly identify a Windows95 box, at least in my > VMWare setup, Nessus comes up blank: it doesn't notice any vulns and only > has a few information issues, which are very low risk. Also, Michel Arboi's > reply that an all-out, aggressive Nessus scan would bring down a W95 box is > not something I have been able to reproduce. > > Could this be due to a VMWare issue? Scanning an XP VMWare box works fine, > though. I realize this is merely a theoretical question as no one would > seriously consider downgrading to anything less than XP Professional. > > Regards, > > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Gula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:47 AM > Subject: Re: Nessus: no vulns in Windows95? > > > > Riemer Brouwer wrote: > >> Thanks for the answer. Just wondering, though: assuming other scanning > >> tools > >> also fail to pick up on Windows95, downgrading might be a good security > >> move > >> as it will prevent you from being found by the baddies :-) > > > > That comment is sort of off topic for the Nessus list. > > > > Downgrading to Win95 might keep you safe from the worms and bot herders > > looking for XP desktops and modern browsers, but if you really want to > > lock > > down a web server or file server, modern OSes have much more to offer > > there. > > > > Ron Gula > > Tenable Network Security > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nessus mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- With kind regards, Darko Gavrilovic, CISSP DRG Networks Tel: 416-550-5701 Web: http://www.drgnetworks.com _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
