Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer

[hirschY]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/tools/Tools/mbsahome.asp

Nice little tool from M$ that scans your machine for security issues and such.
Anywho, neet little tool! If you dont have it, get it, ITS FREE
:p

[Mntsnow]

:) and two thumbs up...

[jadison]

Yep! :) XsCode pointed that tool out for us on the homepage via News Article. Great tool, tried it out and the results are in the comment I posted in response to that News Article. http://www.xtremepccentral.com/index.php

[jadison]

I've seen a lot of messages in several newsgroups and mailing lists such as bugtraq and a few others having some bad things to say about the MBSA. Anyone come across any problems with this software? Has it not provided enough information, or are it's tests not as thorough as they should be?

Personally, I've only tested it once, and this was before I installed and configured IIS, MySQL, PHP, and PHP-Nuke onto this machine. I'm getting ready to test it again using the MBSA, and I'll have the results from that soon.

[NDC]

I give it two thumbs down! MBSA reported that there was a critical security issue and to download the update and no matter how many times I would install the update, that critical notice wouldn't disappear!

And here was the reason why...

Flaws in Microsoft Tool Mount (http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=1884&a=25576,00.asp)

[jadison]

Funny how MSFT creates a tool to find vulnerabilities and flaws and it's the actual tool that is heavily flawed!

:bs: :mad: :2guns: :m16: MBSA

[NDC]

When I first installed MBSA, I was like "WOW" when it found the critical update warning. But when I saw the warning wouldn't disappear after installing and reinstalling the darn update who knows how many times, I was like "Hmmmmm". When I saw that link explaining I wasn't the only one with this problem, I was relieved and ticked off at the same time because I had to sit there wasting my time trying to figure out why this was happening! :(

[wizofid]

I had a customer come to me with a new box he just picked up - and this issue was driving him nuts!

nuf said - wiz