On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 19:52, bunger wrote:
> After realizing the hole

What do you mean?

> I cannot hit the domain on port 7500 w/o using an SSL connection.

You mean that you need a client certificate? Or did you expect that
Nessus would not see the HTTPS server?

> After making the change, I re-ran Nessus against the same server 
> and it found 79 holes - 78 of which were against port 7500?!  They all
> referenced IIS or some asp/cgi script that is not installed on the
> server... 

Your server probably always return a 200 HTTP code

> I was thinking that Nessus was pretty accurate, 

Just curious: what's "accuracy" in security?

> but after this little blunder I want to make sure I fully understand 
> what happened 

If you want us to find the problem, you should be a little more precise.
What Nessus version, configuration, behaviour of your webmin server,
etc. Any *useful* information.

> before passing final judgement....

<grin>
Well, considering the fact that most commercial security scanners cannot
look through SSL, there are definitely a better choice... If your goal
is to have no alarm at all, true or false.
</grin>


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