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List:       nessus
Subject:    Re: Hanging certain services after scanning
From:       Jordan Hrycaj <jordan () mjh ! teddy-net ! com>
Date:       2000-10-20 17:43:06
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, John Q. Public wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Mark Wagner wrote:
>
>|I highlight the following quote from Matthias Andree:
>|
>|> Heck, do people understand that if nessus crashes their system,
>|> everybody else can do so as well?
>|
>|To solve your problem you may disable the tests that cause your
>|daemons to hang, disable the daemons if they aren't being used, or
>|upgrade/patch your daemons.
>
>Additionally, if you have lots of NT hosts with PC Anywhere running (nearly
>all versions, mostly recent ones) a simple nmap scan can choke the PC Anywhere
>service.  Not handy if the remote machine is not easily accessable.
[snip]

I've always seen older BlackICE versions suffering from similar problems
(on win9x, though). 

jordan

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