full-disclosure - What can a Remote Vulnerability Scanner do in Future?

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Message-ID: <43E75834.20006@csuohio.edu>
Date: Mon Feb  6 14:08:05 2006
From: michael.holstein at csuohio.edu (Michael Holstein)
Subject: What can a Remote Vulnerability Scanner do
	in	Future?

> But Windows XP with sp2 enhance the security configuration and block
> these checking way. So we can not do local check on Windows XP sp2 
> except ask customers to do a lot of complex configuration.

Well, with the enhanced security configuration and firewall enabled, the 
vulnerability is no longer "remotely exploitable", is it?

If you want to check for local vulnerabilities, you'll to run something 
client-side. There's at least a half-dozen ways to do this in a domain 
model (eg: GPO or logon scripts) -- but in a standalone environment, 
you'll need an agent of some type.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein CISSP GCIA
Cleveland State University