RE: MS patch-scanner for Win-NT, 2K, IIS, SQL

From: Stadler, Brian T (bstadler@ukans.edu)
Date: 08/15/01 

Message-ID: <F73B91BED37FD5119F970008C7CF50FC8205CF@skylark.mail.ukans.edu>
From: "Stadler, Brian T" <bstadler@ukans.edu>
To: 'Gary Flynn' <flynngn@jmu.edu>, "Thomas C. Greene" <tcgreene@bellatlantic.net>
Subject: RE: MS patch-scanner for Win-NT, 2K, IIS, SQL
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:35:29 -0500

No, NetBIOS has to be enabled for this to work. I hope all of you disable
NetBIOS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Flynn [mailto:flynngn@jmu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 10:51 AM
To: Thomas C. Greene
Cc: focus-ms@securityfocus.com; bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: MS patch-scanner for Win-NT, 2K, IIS, SQL

"Thomas C. Greene" wrote:
>
> which will scan all NT and/or 2K machines in a network from a single
> location
>
> information such as the files in each patch and their file versions
> and checksums, registry keys that would be applied by the hotfix,

Is it safe to assume that the scanning machine must have remote
administrative access to the machines to be checked in order to
check those files and registry settings? 

-- 
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer - Technical Services
James Madison University

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