Re: Skype detection

Hello François,

On Nov 28, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Lachance, François wrote:

> I'm trying to use Nessus to detect machines that have Skype  
> installed.  If I select only the plugins that have the word Skype in  
> the description, it doesn't find anything when I scan my test  
> machine that has Skype loaded.  If I use the Default scan policy, it  
> does report correctly that Skype is on it.
>
> I'm pretty new to Nessus, so I'm sure I'm missing something simple.   
> What are the things I should be watching for in order to get this to  
> work?

Skype can run on any port. Therefore, no matter how minimal you want  
your scanning policy to be, you'll need to enable a port scanner on  
all 65k ports to then be able to detect it.



					-- Renaud




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