Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100315
Category:	Port scanners
Title:	Ping Host
Summary:	This detection determines whether a remote host is; alive by getting a response when sending a request.
Description:	Summary: This detection determines whether a remote host is alive by getting a response when sending a request. Vulnerability Insight: The detection methods might fail for the following reasons: - ICMP: This might be disabled for an environment and would then cause false negatives as hosts are believed to be dead that actually are alive. In contrast it is also possible that a Firewall between the scanner and the target host is answering to the ICMP message and thus hosts are believed to be alive that actually are dead. - TCP ping: Similar to the ICMP case a Firewall between the scanner and the target might answer to the sent probes and thus hosts are believed to be alive that actually are dead. CVSS Score: 0.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:N
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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