I was hoping to hear something from Tenable on the issue of scanning a FDCC 
Compliant Vista workstation. I've supported and recommended Nessus over the 
years, and I would be disappointed if I would have to stop using it.

Take Care --John

--
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." 


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Good Morning everyone,  The third step in the blog states "Prohibit use of 
> Internet connection firewall on your DNS domain. This setting should either 
> be 
> "Disabled" or "Not Configured".  
> http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html
> 
> The problem is FDCC Requires the setting to be Enabled, changing  the setting 
> would cause the workstation to  fails FDCC com pliancy because it would fail 
> the 
> check for CCE-241 http://nvd.nist.gov/fdcc/download_fdcc.cfm
> 
> 
> With the potential for my client to have thousands of Vista workstations, and 
> the requirement to be fully FDCC compliant. I'm not sure how any remote 
> vulnerability assessment software can be used without moving to a agent based 
> scanner.
> 
> This is only my two shiny centavos --John van Meter
> 
> --
> "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." 
> 
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Thanks for the update John! Are you good to go now?
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Good Morning Paul and thank you for the information.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 1. To turn off UAC completely, open up the Control Panel,  select "User 
> > Accounts" and then "Turn User Account Control" to off.   This is not 
> > possible, 
> > because the workstation would no longer be FDCC complient with the failure 
> > of 
> > CCE-4907-2.
> > > 
> > > 2.  I created the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy as a Dword and set the 
> > > value 
> > to one.
> > > 
> > 
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\LocalAccountToken
> > FilterPolicy
> > > 
> > > 3. Remote Registry Service, was set to Manual by default on my Windows 
> > > Vista 
> > Business workstation , and should have started when something tried to use 
> > it. 
> > > 
> > > I looked at both the FDCC V1.0  Q3 2008 Group Policies for Vista and 
> > FDCC-Settings-major-version-1.0 spread sheet and the remote registry 
> > service 
> is 
> > not defined. Starting the service and rerunning a scan for FDCC Compliance 
> > doesn't create any new failures. 
> > > 
> > > I set the remote registry service to automatic and rebooted the 
> > > workstation. 
> > When I  reran my Nessus scan had access to the registry. 
> > > 
> > > I still have to verify that the firewall changes don't create FDCC 
> > > failures.
> > > 
> > > Take Care and Have Fun --John
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --
> > > "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > > From: Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >> John,
> > >>
> > >> Have you enabled the "RemoteRegistry" service and followed the other 
> > >> steps 
> > >> delineated in this blog entry?
> > >>
> > >>   http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html
> > >>
> > >> If not, please try it and let me know how it works for you.
> > >>
> > >> Paul
> > >>
> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >>> Hello Everyone, 
> > >>>
> > >>> I have a questions about Nessuses ability to scan a Vista Workstation, 
> with 
> > >> the FDCC V1.0 Q3 2008 Vista Security Settings Group Policy applied. The 
> > settings 
> > >> I would like to talk about is under Security Options \ Run all 
> Administrators 
> > in 
> > >> Admin Approvel Mode that is enabled in FDCC V1.0 Q3 2008 Vista Security 
> > Settings 
> > >> Group Policy . The target workstation is a member of a domain, I ran a 
> remote 
> > >> Nessus scan of my Vista workstation, the scan was ran with a domain 
> account. 
> > >>> WIth the Run all Administrators in Admin Approvel Mode enabled, Nessus 
> > report 
> > >> that It was able to remotely connect to the Windows registry. The only 
> > >> FDCC 
> > >> Group Policy being applied to the target is FDCC V1.0 Q3 2008 Vista 
> Security 
> > >> Settings.
> > >>> CCE-4907-2 requests that Run all Administrators in Admin Approvel Mode 
> > >>> to 
> be 
> > >> enabled. This setting restrict admin account so that it doesn't have 
> > >> full 
> > admin 
> > >> rights. 
> > >>> Locally you can run a admin task by right clicking on the program 
> selecting 
> > >> Run as administrators, then selecting allow. 
> > >>> Remotely, the Nessus scan reported that it didn't have access to the 
> > registry  
> > >> and I believe this is due to the User Access Control in Vista 
> > >> restricting 
> > admin 
> > >> priveleges.
> > >>> Does Tenable have any plans of action to deal with this? 
> > >>>
> > >>> Thank You for the information --John
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." 
> > >>> _______________________________________________
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> > >>>
> > >> -- 
> > >> Best Regards,
> > >>
> > >> Paul Davis
> > >> Research Engineer
> > >> Tenable Network Security Inc
> > >> Phone: 410.872.0555
> > >> www.tenablesecurity.com
> > >>
> > >> Is your network TENABLE?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Best Regards,
> > 
> > Paul Davis
> > Research Engineer
> > Tenable Network Security Inc
> > Phone: 410.872.0555
> > www.tenablesecurity.com
> > 
> > Is your network TENABLE?
> 
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