Security Basics: RE: MBSA 1.2

[Kelly Martin <kel () securityfocus com>]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Nagy Gergely wrote:

> Does Nessus run on XP?
> How can I set it to scan all the Microsoft patches on the given system and
> vulnerabilites?
Note that we ran a 3-part series on Nessus indepth recently, to provide
more information than is listed on the Nessus site. The scan examples and
screenshots are provided for both Unix and Windows based clients. You
should find this a useful primer:

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1741
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1753
http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1759

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Kelly Martin kel () securityfocus com http://www.securityfocus.com
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