Does a security scanning program needs to know the OS's of the machines being scanned?

From: Ricardo (r_olivieri_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/24/04 

Date: 24 May 2004 06:59:00 -0700

Does a security scanning program needs to know the operating systems
of the machines being scanned? In other words, does the security
scanning program perform different security tests depending on the
operating system of the machine being scanned?

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