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Re: Orphaned Vuln. Checks (Was: Re: DCShop Plugin)

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Subject: Re: Orphaned Vuln. Checks (Was: Re: DCShop Plugin)
From: Ron Gula <rgula@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:57:56 -0400
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Mike.Vasquez@cityofmesa.org wrote:
> I'm guessing if a plug-in is removed at the wishes of the author, if no 
> one creates a new one, the vulnerability isn't checked for any longer? :-(
> Is there a list of these orphaned vulnerability checks anywhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike

This situation doesn't occur that often. Tenable tends to focus on newer
checks, requests from our Direct Feed and Security Center customers and
any sort of maintenance and updates to older checks.

We have not produced a list of orphaned checks. We try to be fairly open
with RSS feeds, the ability to search plugin content on nessus.org and
so on.

Ron Gula, CTO
Tenable Network Security

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