Oh, I agree. It would be concerning if I was there. But from over here we got a good chuckle. You are correct, the wording could be a bit more professional. Maybe phrases that get printed out could start with a phrase like “Network Security Scan In Progress. Diagnostic Message is:” so that people don’t get concerned with whatever gets printed. I wonder what other gems are out there?
Stewart Joseph LEK Technology Consultants 407-877-6505 x1103 www.lekcomp.com From: Andrew Robinson <a...@rescor.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 11:46 AM To: Alex Smirnoff <a...@eltex.net>; Stewart Joseph <stew...@lekcomp.com>; openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] "Are you dead?" Really? Yes, _I_ appreciate the humor and irony. But the client didn’t find it even slightly humorous, particularly when the nurses in the hospital almost triggered the lockdown protocol because they thought they were under an active threat. An over-reaction for sure, but as I try to advance OpenVAS as a professional tool on par with it’s commercial sibling, Nessus, this doesn’t make my job any easier. I manually patched libopenvas_nasl.so.9.0.1 to change the string from “are you dead ?” to “function check” Something like this should be done in the OpenVAS source. Or at least make it a string that can be set, and NOT default to “are you dead ?” no matter how ironic or humorous that default might be. On Apr 10, 2018, at 11:14, Alex Smirnoff <a...@eltex.net<mailto:a...@eltex.net>> wrote: If it asks "Are you alive? Prove it!" then it might be more scary. Even if it is a printer, not a toaster ;-) On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:05:46PM +0000, Stewart Joseph wrote: You must admit, there is more than a touch of ironic humor there. I ran a scan of a Deli's network and when it hit their receipt printer it printed out about 3 feet with the word "Hello" in it. I wasn't there when it hit. They thought the printer had become self-aware. Stewart Joseph, CTO LEK Technology Consultants 407-877-6505 x1103 www.lekcomp.com<http://www.lekcomp.com> -----Original Message----- From: Openvas-discuss <openvas-discuss-boun...@wald.intevation.org<mailto:openvas-discuss-boun...@wald.intevation.org>> On Behalf Of Andrew Robinson Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 1:48 PM To: openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org<mailto:openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org> Subject: [Openvas-discuss] "Are you dead?" Really? Running an openvas scan with printer scanning enabled CAN result in several pages containing the string “are you dead?” being printed. In this case, in a hospital, in the ob/gyn suite. Not good. I’ve searched through the NVTs and can’t find where this string is sourced. Does anyone know? _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org<mailto:Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org> https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org<mailto:Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org> https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
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