Re: .audit code question

Paul Davis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Organization Tenable Network Security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John,

The syntax looks fine at a glance, however, it usually makes sense to query from HKLM and not HKCU whenever possible because of the transient 
nature of HKCU.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello Everyone, does anyone see anything wrong with the below or anything that I should add. 
> 
> I just want the test to check the regkey and pass it the value_data matches or fail it it doesn't.
> 
> <custom_item>
> type: REGISTRY_SETTING
> description: "CCE-1543  - Excel 2007 - Enable Block opening of Html and Xmlss files types"
> value_type: POLICY_DWORD
> value_data: "1"
> reg_key: "HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Security\FileOpenBlock\"
> reg_item: "HtmlandXmlssFiles"
> </item>
> 
> Thanks --John
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Best Regards,

Paul Davis
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Tenable Network Security Inc
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