Try using a credentialed check. Those will find local applications and tell you versions. A non-credentialled check normally just hits the ports and can often only tell version from the banners of externally listening applications
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Asthana, Vishal</b> <<a href="mailto:vasthana@ipolicynetworks.com">vasthana@ipolicynetworks.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Is there any Nessus plugin that helps report <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Application names and versions</span></b> e.g.
Internet Explorer, Yahoo, Firefox etc? There are Application <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">DETECTION</span></b> plugins for the same but the
post-scan operation does not report the <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">specific
Application installed</span></b>. It only reports FTP Server, Web Server,
Oracle Listener etc. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I have already referred to the following old threads and
ensured that <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">find_service.nes</span></b> was
part of the scan.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/htdig/nessus/2004-February/msg00302.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/htdig/nessus/2004-February/msg00302.html</a></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/htdig/nessus/2004-February/msg00218.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/htdig/nessus/2004-February/msg00218.html</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I have also tried using <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nmap
scanner</span></b> instead of the Nessus TCP scanner with the same results.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=nmap-usage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=nmap-usage</a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Any pointers would be helpful.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Vishal</span></font></p>
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