RE: Windows Network Audit Tool Question

["Rosado, Rafael (Rafael)" <rarosado () lucent com>]

You might want to consider running Microsoft's Baseline Security Analyzer
(MSBA) -
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/
tools/Tools/MBSAhome.asp

or GFI's Languard Network Scanner (http://www.gfi.com/lannetscan/index.htm).


Both are open source/freeware and run under Windows (MSBA requires Windows
2000 Professional and Administrator rights over the machines being scanned,
Languard runs under 9x/NT/2000 and you do not need Administrator rights over
the machines being scanned).  The commercial version of Languard is $99 and
allows a Network Administrator to push/distribute security patches remotely.

FYI...version 3.1 of Languard (beta) advertises that it will allow Network
Administrators remotely push service packs (in addition to security
patches).

Rafael Rosado
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-----Original Message-----
From: Havens, Ben [mailto:benh () bf umich edu]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:59 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Windows Network Audit Tool Question


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
-- 
  Old Ben
  obwan51 () fastmail fm