George A. Theall escribió: > On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez wrote: > >> Btw, the "do not scan fragile >> devices" will only appear if you create a new policy. Why doesn't it >> appear >> when editing default scan policy? > > It's a known issue, I'm afraid.
Another Windows issue (I guess): If I create a new policy, and enter "credentials", the window gets screw (same text is duplicated upper and down, using "half" a font :)). >> I disabled the ping scan and it didn't work either. But... I >> reenabled ping >> and check icmp ping in advanced options, and now it worked!! I >> suppose that >> Nessus marks a host as dead if all tests failed, and now that icmp >> ping is >> being checked, the host is no longer mark as dead... is it right? >> >> Anyway, I'm still a bit confused because letting only marked the >> "Nessus >> TCP scanner" option (thus ping scanner disabled), and changing "port >> scanner range" from "default" to 1-65535, the host is still being >> marked as >> dead. What's the exact algorithm to mark a host as dead? > > Hmm, my advice wasn't totally correct. If you're enabling plugin > dependencies (which you almost certainly want to do), ping_host.nasl > will get run anyway. The correct solution for disabling the ping > scanner is to uncheck all the boxes (ICMP ping, TCP ping, and ARP ping). Qs: 1.- If I check the three marks (icmp, tcp, arp), I suppose the host will only be detected as dead when the three tests fail, am I right? 2.- When a host is detected as dead, is it right to assume that all modules (ping_host.nasl, dont_scan_printers.nasl, etc) got a failure? In other words, the host is alive when at least one of the modules thinks so (some kind of "OR" logical operation), and it is dead when all modules fail (logical "AND"). Right? >> And why are those >> ports not being used by TCP scanner? > > Are you scanning over a PPP or PPTP connection? That's also not > supported currently in Nessus Windows. No, it's a LAN connection (ADSL). Btw, is there any doc discussing Windows vs Linux version differences such as the former one? -- Saludos, -Roman PGP Fingerprint: 09BB EFCD 21ED 4E79 25FB 29E1 E47F 8A7D EAD5 6742 [Key ID: 0xEAD56742. Available at KeyServ] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
