Practical Exercise - Running a Credentialed Vulnerability Scanner

In this exercise, we are going to download the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) tool and run it against our local computer to look for vulnerabilities:

1. Go to Google and search for the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer tool. You can just enter MBSA and Google will find it.
2. Click on MBSASetup-x64-EN. The MBSA Setup wizard appears. Press Next, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 10

3. Click on I accept the license agreement, then press Next:

Figure 11

4. On the destination folder page, press Next.
5. On the start installation page, press Install, then the installation progress page will appear, as follows:

Figure 12: Installation progress

6. Then, the setup will finish:

Figure 13: Installation complete

7. A shortcut is placed on the desktop. Double-click it. The UAC prompt appears; click Yes:
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