Re: Network Penetration Test

From: S. Pidgorny [MVP] (slavickp@yahoo.com)
Date: 01/10/03 

From: "S. Pidgorny [MVP]" <slavickp@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:12:54 +1100

They just can's establish any conection to the system - which can be caused
by a firewall. The wording is terribly confusing. They should say something
like: "Ok, we give up - but there are many hops between our scanner and your
system, so you possibly have huge security holes - we can't really
guarrantee anything (see license agreement)!"

Cheers

Slav

"ynotssor" <"ynotssor"> wrote in message
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> "Slarty Bartfast" <Slarty@Bartfast.com> wrote in message
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> [...]
> > ===============================================
> > Our Apologies
> > Your Free Network Security Scan Interrupted.
> > A number of reasons could have caused the scan to interrupt.
> > For Example:
> > Your host is inactive and does not respond to our QualysGuard scanner.
> > Your host is behind a firewall.
> > Your host is not connected to the Internet.
> > If you feel this is an error, please contact Qualys Support.
> > ===============================================
> >
> > I thought this was odd. Naturally I am behind a firewall!!??
>
> Now _that's_ funny!
>
> A "Network Security Scan" and they are addressing a "host"?
>
> Sounds like they consider a firewall to be a security problem, because
> they can't get to you. LOL!
>
> Sounds like about a worthless endeavour.
>
> tony
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