On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:30:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently working on a large project. We have tested about 2.000
> running hosts in different slices over several weeks with Nessus 1.2.7. In
> the end we have merged all the *.nsr-files to one *.nsr-file. Afterwards,
> we have generated several kinds of reports from this *.nsr-file:
>
> under Linux (Redhat 8.0) with Nessus 1.2.7:
>
> - html (with pies and graphs)
> - html
> - ascii (*.txt)
>
> under Windows (XP) with NessusWX 1.4.2-HF1:
>
> - html
> - ascii (*.txt)
>
> The results differ because they are not same in the different Reports:
>
> Nessus: html w. pies html ascii
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Holes 3812 3812 3812
> Warnings 10508 12070 12070
> Notes 12070 - 10508
HTML+Pies tries to be smarter than the simple info/warning/hole
categorization and parses the content of each report, searching for the
string 'Risk Factor'. Therefore, the results might be slightly
different, as you're seeing.
-- Renaud
