Hello François,
On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Lachance, François wrote:
> I'm trying to use Nessus to detect machines that have Skype
> installed. If I select only the plugins that have the word Skype in
> the description, it doesn't find anything when I scan my test
> machine that has Skype loaded. If I use the Default scan policy, it
> does report correctly that Skype is on it.
>
> I'm pretty new to Nessus, so I'm sure I'm missing something simple.
> What are the things I should be watching for in order to get this to
> work?
Skype can run on any port. Therefore, no matter how minimal you want
your scanning policy to be, you'll need to enable a port scanner on
all 65k ports to then be able to detect it.
-- Renaud
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