nessus scaremongering?
I just apt-get installed nessus and ran it over some of the machines onmy
network. It decided that my hardware router [linksys BEFW11S4] had a
trojan called Shaft, and a windows box[xp] had back orifice.
Is it possible for a hardware router to be running a trojan? or is the
scanner getting anomolous results?
It wouldnt suprise me if someone had compromised the windows box [heh. its
a windows box :p] but i couldnt find any of the telltale back orifice
files on the windows box so im tempred to think it was another false
result by nessus.
Nessus appears to be a good tool but ive pointed it at 3 local machnies
so far and the results of two of those are questionable. Is nessus
usually reliable? have other people had false matches? Could i actually
have both these trojans?
excuse the vagueness,
thanks,
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