Re: Windows 64bit Nessus Targets
Nicolas Pouvesle <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nessus.general |
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On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Lovering, Ian J wrote: > My question(s) is this: > > What code is the architecture test protecting? > Is there something used by the patch checking plugins that does not > run correctly or gives incorrect responses if run against a 64bit > system? > > Can Nessus be safe and reliable when used for patch checking against > 64bit Windows targets? > Nessus only supports local patch checks (MS patches) against Vista and 2008 on a 64bit system. Current 32 bit checks can not be used against 64bit XP/2003 because file version numbers are, most of the time, totally different. Nicolas _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus