Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN

From: Josh Zlatin-Amishav (josh@tkos.co.il)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 15:00:20 EDT


On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Michael Boman wrote:

> On 9/9/05, Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo@pvtpt.com> wrote:
>> Now for the question. Does anyone know of a scanning tool that runs on
>> windows (Due to the different VPN clients used) other then NeWT. I
>> don't have $7000 plus the $1200 a year in my budget for one scanning
>> tool.
>
> Nessus was recently ported to the Win32 platform by Cenzic
> (http://www.cenzic.com/nessusport.html). Not super-stable yet, but you
> can work around the issues (NessusD needs to be restarted between each
> scan).

Based on:
http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2005-August/msg00194.html

the Cenzic port seems like it is severly limited in terms of which plugins it can legally
run.

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  - Josh
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