Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer.exe: Windows 2000 Professional and XP
Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). 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) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and 2002.
MBSA creates and stores individual XML security reports for each computer scanned and will display the reports in the graphical user interface in HTML.
MBSA uses a version of HFNetChk to scan for missing hotfixes and service packs for Windows, IIS, and SQL. 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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Requirements - The following are requirements for a computer running the tool:
Windows 2000 or Windows XP Internet Explorer 5.01 and later. An XML parser is required (MSXML version 3.0 SP2) for the tool to function correctly.
Systems not running IE 5.01 or greater will need to download and install an XML parser to run this tool. MSXML version 3.0 SP2 can be installed during tool setup, otherwise, you can download and install a standalone version of the Microsoft XML parser from the following location.
The IIS Common Files are required on the computer on which the tool is installed if performing remote scans of IIS computers
The following are requirements for a computer to be scanned by the tool:
Windows NT 4.0 SP4 and above, Windows 2000, or Windows XP IE 5.01 or greater IIS 4.0, 5.0 (required for IIS vulnerability checks) SQL 7.0, 2000 (required for SQL vulnerability checks) Microsoft Office 2000, XP (required for desktop application vulnerability checks)
IMPORTANT DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
Note Please view the readme.txt file before executing the tool. The readme.txt file contains important information on system requirements, scan options, and tool support options.
Select "Run this Program from its Current Location" to start the install immediately, OR Select "Save this Program to Disk" to copy the download to your machine for installation at a later time.
MBSA was developed for Microsoft by Shavlik Technologies LLC (http://www.shavlik.com/).
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