On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:30:19PM -0500, Jim Hendrick wrote:
> I personally would voice my opinion against any plugin that intentionally
> sends *ANY* signal to a known virus/backdoor.
The very definition of a scanner is to send signal to the remote
services. How is sending "43ffffff0000000004120" more dangerous than
sending "GET / HTTP/1.0" ? If a "blackhat" infected the remote host and
decided to do something bad with it, he could wait for any of the Nessus
probe to come in.
-- Renaud
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