Re: MS05-039 Scanner

From: Matt Burrough (mburrough@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 23:48:14 EDT


We run this Nessus plugin as well as a number of others continually on
our network. Our server takes about two hours to go through the
entire network once. Although we aren't close to using every address
yet.

> I successfully scanned a full class-B network with Nessus by doing the
> following:
>
> 1) Download all latest plugins (to get MS05-039 plugin)
> 2) Start Nessusd
> 3) Start Nessus, log in
> 4) In the "Plugins" tab, click Disable All, then scroll down to Windows,
> select it, and from the bottom window, select ONLY "Vulnerability in
> Plug and Play...."
> 5) In the "Scan Options" tab, deselect all scans, but select "Ping the
> remote host". Only the bottom two checkboxes should be checked (the
> other one's "Exclude toplevel...". Also, increase "Number of hosts to
> test at the same time" to something like 100.
> 6) In the "Prefs" tab, scroll down to "Ping the remote host", and in
> "TCP ping dest port", enter "445". Check "Do a TCP ping", and uncheck
> all other pings.
> 7) In Target, enter your class B (192.168.0.0/16, or something like that)
> 8) Click "Start the scan".
>
> For me, running on a laptop with Centrino 1.2 ghz and 100baseT ethernet,
> I scanned a class B in around 4 hours. Not the fastest, but not bad.
>
> --Graeme Connell
>
>
> michael_black@comcast.net wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Does anyone know of any available scanners for this vulnerability? I know Tenable has a plugin for Nessus and eEye has a free one for up to 16 hosts, but I need one for a Class B network and I need it tonight (long story, but I am sure some of you understand management pressures). I know eEye sells a version of theirs for larger networks, but I cannot get anyone on the phone at either Tenable or eEye, any suggestions?

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