I'm having a problem with scanning windows boxes that belong to a domain. Nessus is installed and works properly. The problem is that some of the plugins don't give the proper results. For instance, I have a box with a default installation of AOL IM on it. When I scan it with Nessus it does not return a positive result. It gives no info about AOL. It does, however return results about open ports, Window vulnerabilites, and versions of native Windows software. I have the plug-in "AOL Instant Messenger is Installed (11882)" and all the dependencies. Matter of fact I have "enable all but dangerous plug-ins" enabled. So, I don't think I'm missing any dependencies. I do have "Safe Checks" enabled, could this be the problem? This is not the only plug-in like this that does not work. Other plug-ins like detect Yahoo Messenger and detect Ezula don't work. I can't quite figure out why. I'm scanning the boxes with a domain admin account and it has access to HKLM and HKCU.

Thanks for your help.

Ok, back to googling for me.