We have Foundstone's scanner on one machine. I use Nessus (installed on a
Linux VMWare machine), N-Stealth and nmap.

"Matt Gibson" wrote in message
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I've used nmap and retina with no problems.

Which scanner are you having a problem with?

Remember, the XP2 firewall does NOT block outbound packets.

Matt Gibson - GSEC

"Nancy Kafer" wrote in message
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I'm not sure which group to post this to, thus the cross-posting.

I am getting ready to upgrade my laptop to Windows XP (from Win 2K
Professional). However, one thing that is keeping me from performing the
upgrade is the fact that from everything I've read SP2 breaks
vulnerability
scanners because of the Internet Firewall. We have contacted one of our
vendors and they have told us that vulnerability scanners will not work
with
SP2 because the Internet Firewall closes ports necessary for scanners to
run. We have tried turning off the firewall to test but the scanner
still
won't work.

Has anyone successfully used a vulnerability scanner with SP2? If so,
what
scanner are you using and what tweaks (if any) did you have to do
perform
to
get the scanner to work?

Thanks.

Nancy