Actually, this is an authenticated (credentials supplied) scan, so I guess I 
really only need to select "netstat portsscanner (WMI)" as the port scanner to 
use.  The only plugins selected are the ones I found using the search for the 
word "skype".

When I scan the one machine that has Skype installed, I get nothing at all 
returned.  I'm wondering if there is a plugin that I should have selected that 
the Skype detection is dependent on.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
 
François 

-----Original Message-----
From: Renaud Deraison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: November-29-08 10:51 AM
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Lachance; Lachance, François
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Skype detection



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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