Re: Unable to scan with Nessus when hosts have FDCC implemented
Ron Gula <[email protected]>
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Puerto, Richard (IG/A/ITSA) wrote: > Hello All, > > We have come across a site the we were auditing and conducting network > vulnerability scans, and the Nessus report came up empty. We figured out > that it was due to having FDCC implemented and the Nesssus scanner was > unable to access the machine. It would detect the host being there but > not able to access any of the host's ports. > > Any one else encounter this and has found a solution? > > If you are performing a network scan, without credentials and the FDCC host has a firewall enabled, you will likely not find anything, which is a good thing for a desktop hardened system. If you want to perform an FDCC audit, you should see these blog entries: http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2007/09/using-nessus-co.html Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus