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Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner)
From: Frederic Charpentier <fcharpentier () xmcopartners com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:24:14 +0200
because the purpose of theses scanners (retina, shadow, languard, nessus, iss..) is to find vulnerability.
The customer pays to find vulns and they are happy to find a lot. For a customer, a good scanner find a lot of vulns. that's it.The only reliable way to check for a vuln, is to test the machine with the real exploit or to look the program release (dll version or rpm -qa) !
Example : the fact to know that a web server is apache1.3.26 doesn't mean that this server is vulnerable to the apache_chunked exploit. It could be patched or running under another os.....
Fred clarke-cummings () columbus rr com wrote:
Hello Everyone, We recently began evaluating eEye's Retina product for our vulnerability assessment tool. We have found the results to be very inconsistent, showing us vulnerable to issues that have been patched. We've verified the patches manually, with MBSA, HFNETCHK, and LanGuard. eEye didn't have a good answer as to why the results were so inconsistent. Any guesses? Also, how is their support response for those that are customers? As a trial customer they aren't a very impressive organization. Thanks in advance for the help. Cheers, Clarke -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ethical Hacking at the InfoSec Institute. Mention this ad and get $545 off any course! All of our class sizes are guaranteed to be 10 students or less to facilitate one-on-one interaction with one of our expert instructors. Attend a course taught by an expert instructor with years of in-the-field pen testing experience in our state of the art hacking lab. Master the skills of an Ethical Hacker to better assess the security of your organization. Visit us at: http://www.infosecinstitute.com/courses/ethical_hacking_training.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Current thread:
- Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) clarke-cummings () columbus rr com (Apr 20)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Adam Tuliper (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Frederic Charpentier (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Román Ramírez (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Peter Wood (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Steve (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Bojan Zdrnja (Apr 22)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Steve (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Shawn Edwards (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Bobby . Clarke (Apr 22)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Cam Beasley, ISO (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Chris Hurley (Apr 21)
- RE: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Lovrien, Scott (Apr 21)
- Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner) Renaud Deraison (Apr 22)
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