On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:34:35AM -0600, Cheryl Ammann wrote: > I think I know the answer to this, but I need > to be sure. > > nessus detects and identifies services that are > running on non-standard ports. Is this true even > when the non-standard port is a reserved port? > Say, a web server running on a port in the 600s?
Yes, this is true for every port. Once there is service recognition, Nessus does not perform a "best guess" but considers that the probability of a given service running on a given port is equal for all ports.
