Hiya!

I used the Tool to scan several Servers.
Im impressed - they did their homework.
Im asking myself how the BSA is goning to be updated to actual Hotfixes...

Any ideas?

Christian Hanzal
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: evilnigeliprimus.com.au [mailto:evilnigeliprimus.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:22 AM
> To: focus-mssecurityfocus.com
> Subject: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v1.0 Released 8th April
>
>
> Hi gang,
>
> Anyone had a chance to form some thoughts about the MBSA tool
> which was released on the 8th of April?
>
> If you haven't already seen or heard about it, here's a brief
> spiel about it:
>
> Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
> Microsoft has created a new tool, the Microsoft Baseline
> Security Analyzer (MBSA), to analyze Windows systems for
> common security misconfigurations. Version 1.0 of MBSA
> includes a graphical and command line interface that can
> perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs
> on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for
> missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following
> products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet
> Information Server (IIS) 40 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000,
> Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and XP.
>
> MBSA uses a version of HFNetChk to scan for missing hotfixes
> and service packs for Windows, IIS, and SQL Server. MBSA will
> create and store individual XML security reports for each
> computer scanned and will display the reports in the
> graphical user interface in HTML.
>
> For More Information -
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q320454
>
> Version - 1.0
> Release Date - 8 April 2002
> Estimated Download Size - 2.5 MB
>
>
>
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