Re: [Openvas-discuss] Scanning MS windows

2014-03-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.03.2014 20:21, schrieb Jagannath Naidu: On 3 February 2014 18:30, Jan-Oliver Wagner jan-oliver.wag...@greenbone.net mailto:jan-oliver.wag...@greenbone.net wrote: On Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2013, Jagannath Naidu wrote: I was a QualysGuard user and decided to use the

Re: [Openvas-discuss] Scanning MS windows

2014-03-21 Thread Jagannath Naidu
This time, I built it from source code with wmi support enabled. And also enabled the wmi queries from the windows xp version 2002 sp 2 system. But the results are even less to 50%. In the plugins directory, seen plenty of plugins with smb in their name and very less with wmi in their name.

Re: [Openvas-discuss] Scanning MS windows

2014-03-21 Thread Brandon Perry
Do not take the number of vulns reported as a true number. I won't name names, but some scanners will report each vuln fixed by a KB, as opposed to saying you are missing the patch KB-whatever. What is more important is if the information given to you is accurate. If scanner X says that you are

Re: [Openvas-discuss] Scanning MS windows

2014-03-21 Thread Brandon Perry
Also, I hope you are not switching to the open source side just because of monetary reasons. If you were concerned that QualysGuard was not providing you the security you need, you should run both OpenVAS and QualysGuard in tandem until you know for a fact you are not sacrificing the security of