RE: Windows Network Audit Tool Question

["Havens, Ben" <benh () bf umich edu>]

Nessus (nessus.org) has a plugin for checking service pack level.  Don't see one for querying installed hotfixes, but 
you might be able to rework this one to return those hotfix regkeys/values.  That appears to be all that Winfingerprint 
does.

IMHO, this is not a very reliable method.  Something like Hfnetchk (shavlik.com) which also verifies file versions and 
checksums would give you a better idea of whether installed hotfixes are still intact.

-Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: Old Ben [mailto:obwan51 () fastmail fm]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 1:21 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Windows Network Audit Tool Question


Greetings,

As an admin of a Windows Domain I am looking for a tool that will provide
the same type of information (especially the service pack/patch level)
that I can get from Winfingerprint http://winfingerprint.sourceforge.net/
but that will run from a shell on Linux.  I suspect that it is possible
to do this with the Samba client software but can't find any information
on it.  Can anyone provide me a starting point or a link to an (open
source) tool that provides this functionallity?  Thanks.

-fb
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  Old Ben
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