Yes, NVTs are reviewed and tested by GreenBone QA. (I know something about
NVT develoment as I developed about 2800 lsc nvt plugins for openvas)


I think main reason for non-admin is that some-one can compromise your
scanner machine and then run all code as admin ..

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Eero

2015-11-10 19:07 GMT+03:00 Rene Behring <rene.behr...@gmail.com>:

> >
> > Maybe you should test it.
> >
>
> Yes i will do that.
>
> > Many of checks just read file versions and registry. I think that works
> on normal account too? It's very dangerous to give admin rights to scanner
> ..
>
> Yes thats why we don’t wanna give the scanner that much rights.
> I don´t know very much about NVT development and deployment. Does the NVTs
> from the OpenVAS NVT Feed gets reviewed?
> Greenbone reviews all the NVTs afaik...
>
> Thanks for your fast response,
> René
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