On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:15:02 -0500 Ron Gula <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bazy wrote: > > Hello! > > > > We use WSUS in our company for updates, but not everyone restart's his > > workstation for days. So in some cases the computer is still vulnerable if > > not restarted. How would be the best practice to check this? I'm using > > Nessus for about 3 months, read the book but have little experience. > > > > We try to make every effort to test the live system. For example, we > occasionally get false positive reports from customers who say that > a machine is patched, yet Nessus is showing the machine to still be > vulnerable because the machine STILL IS vulnerable, and requires a > reboot. > > Are you asking to be able to scan for a machine that is in the state > of needed to be rebooted? > > Ron Gula > Tenable Network Security > Yes Ron, that is exactly what I'm asking. It's a confusing situation because in WSUS we see the machine as updated, Nessus reports it as vulnerable, it can be exploited, and we as a Security Team open a ticket for IT to patch the machine, witch just needs a reboot. _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
