Re: Why eEye Retina (was MBSA scanner)

From: Peter Wood (peterw_at_firstbase.co.uk)
Date: 04/21/04

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To: pen-test@securityfocus.com

    We found that Retina seems to give false positives if you are logged in to
    the target system (or have implicit access e.g. as Domain Admin). However
    with no authentication on the target it gives reliable results. I have
    assumed that it is checking the existence of specific files on the target
    rather than whether the respective services are running ...

    As for their tech support, it hasn't been great but at leats we get replies
    which is more than we did with ISS Internet Scanner problems :-\

    Pete

    At 10:37 20/04/2004 -0400, clarke-cummings@columbus.rr.com wrote:
    >Hello Everyone,
    >
    >We recently began evaluating eEye's Retina product for our vulnerability
    >assessment tool. We have found the results to be very inconsistent,
    >showing us vulnerable to issues that have been patched. We've verified the
    >patches manually, with MBSA, HFNETCHK, and LanGuard. eEye didn't have a
    >good answer as to why the results were so inconsistent. Any guesses?
    >
    >Also, how is their support response for those that are customers? As a
    >trial customer they aren't a very impressive organization.
    >
    >Thanks in advance for the help.
    >
    >Cheers,
    >Clarke
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