Cancel that...  me bad...

Bill


I wish I could get a bulk scanner that reported "infected".

The Retina Scanner reports "Vulnerable"...

Bill Burge
...spiffy sig block...

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On 9/21/2001 at 10:13 AM John Stauffacher wrote:

>All,
>
>I just ran this scanner and am picking up more false positives than real
>infections. Not only did it pick up all my Macs (they arent even running
>Dave or have any SMB shares), it picked up my indigo and my Snap Server
>(tell me how a snap server gets infected by this?). I realize that
>diagnosing these things is a shot in the dark - but, telling me "open
>guest share" when the machine is not sharing anything (or even listening
>on 139) is kinda a mis-nomer an a cause for panic (130 "infected" out of
>253 possible)...anyone else seen this kind of false positive from the
>scanner?
>
>-John Stauffacher
>
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>! Network Administrator   !
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>>
>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:31:06 -0700
>From: info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: New Version of Retina Nimba Scanner
>
>A new version of Nimda Scanner has just been posted to the eEye web site
>that will also detect open shares on systems which is a common trait of an
>infection.
>
>http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Tools/nimda.html
>
>Signed,
>eEye Digital Security
>T.949.349.9062
>F.949.349.9538
>
>
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