RE: Nessus scanner can't see Vista
"Mehul Revankar" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.nessus.general |
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| Organization | Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> I have been using Nessus 3.2 on OSX 10.4.11 for some time. I > am having a problem trying to scan a Windows Vista host. My > Nessus plugins are current. > There are several reasons why Vista scans won't work right away, and lot of times its either the firewall, UAC or the Remote Registry service status. > l have with ALL Nessus plugins enabled,. The scan seems to > complete in a few minutes but there is NO data in the Nessus > client. I am on > the same subnet and can indeed "ping" the target host just fine. > This same Nessus scanner performs valid scans of most all > other Windows Operating Systems (Win2000, WinXP and Win2003 > Server) I have the Vista default Firewall turned OFF. The > default install had the Firewall turned ON. What else can I > try to get a meaningful scan? You should probably look at couple of blog entries below, which give detailed instructions to scan a Vista system. Although, the blog entry is more catered towards FDCC compliance auditing, the steps listed should help you scan a Vista box. http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2008/02/testing-windows.html http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2007/05/visit_configura.html Hope that helps. - Mehul _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus