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Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking
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for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration.
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It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery,
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services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server
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running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language.
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The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public
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Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful.
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WWW: http://www.nessus.org/
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2003-01-31 23:18:40 +01:00
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PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins-devel first.
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