Am Wednesday 19 November 2008 19:41:01 schrieb Thomas Reinke:
> We've been noting that tests that would be, for lack of a better name,
> classified as Windows local security checks are being categorized
> in the family "Misc.", "General", "Denial of Service", and so on.
>
> These tests appear (unless we've missed a few) all the equivalent
> of local security checks for linux type systems, requiring registry
> access.
>
> Shouldn't these put into a family that reflects their nature?
> E.g. existing category "Windows"?  Or if this is too generic, something
> like "Windows local security checks"?
>
> For MS bulletins, the category currently being used is "Windows",
> but there is already a category specifically for these,
> i.e. "Windows : Microsoft Bulletins".  I suspect the various
> *ms08*.nasl scripts should be using that family.

it is a long-standing issue to me that we need to consolidate the
families.

Perhaps the best approach is to write a CR that provides definitions
(or some other sort of characterization) for the families we should
maintain. This might be a challenging task and it might take some time
to agree on the (potentially changed/extend) set of families.

This might also relate to the thoughts about OID scheme, but I am not
sure yet.

Best

Jan 

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