nessus report

[Jeff Laine]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:41:46PM -0800, Richard Yang wrote:
> yes,but i dpn't know how...
> it looks to me that all ports are closed
> 
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:38 PM, michael <michael.copeland at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Richard Yang wrote:
> >
> >> hi,
> >> when i ran nessus against my bsd box, nessus can detect "the remote host
> >> is
> >> up".
> >> i don't understand how nessus can detect it...
> >> does anyone know how it is done?
> >> thanx
> >>
> >> rich
> >>
> >>
> > uh, maybe because it responded?
> >

Check your firewall settings and run tcpdump  to be sure your host not sending 
any replies after scan attempt.

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Best regards,
Jeff

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