RE: MBSA 1.2

["Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]" <aditya.deshmukh () online gateway technolabs net>]

maybe you are using the wrong tool for this 

we use gfi languard which has the ability to scan for missing patches also download the latest update from the windows 
site 

the address is there in the gfi langurd options 

also there is a shareware avilabe for download from the website 

-aditya

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nagy Gergely [mailto:gergely.nagy () is-energy hu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 5:46 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: MBSA 1.2
>
>
> Does Nessus run on XP?
> How can I set it to scan all the Microsoft patches on the given system and
> vulnerabilites?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohan Amin [mailto:rohan () rohanamin com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1:51 AM
> To: Nagy Gergely
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: MBSA 1.2
>
> A colleague and I have had success with using Nessus
> (http://www.nessus.org) for this purpose.  Just modify smb_login.nasl
> to use the various Administrator passwords that you have.  Nessus
> already includes a few checks for some patches, but if you need more
> you can always write some (its quite easy using NASL).  Of course, you
> are trusting the registry to give you accurate information but it
> might be better than nothing.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rohan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Nagy Gergely wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a very heterogenous infrasturcture, with most PC's 
> logged into NDS.
> > What is the use of MBSA (that requires local admin priv) if all the PC's
> > have different local admin passwords?
> > In this case, am I not able to scan the situation on the whole network?
> > Then what else tool could I use to determine the state of patches?
> >
> > Br,
> >
> > Gery
> >
> >
> >
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