RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN

From: Michael Gargiullo (mgargiullo@pvtpt.com)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 11:42:09 EDT


Sweet, this is what I need. I notice it only ships with 86 plugins. Do
you know if the others don't work at all, or is it a hit or miss
situation with the other plugins?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Boman [mailto:michael.boman@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:19 AM
To: Michael Gargiullo
Cc: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN

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).

<plug type="shameless">
I blogged about it at
http://proxy.11a.nu/2005/08/16/cenzic-releases-windows-nt-port-of-nessus
-vulnerability-scanner/,
and you can download the Win32 binaries (without filling in any
registration and what not) from
http://proxy.11a.nu/2005/08/16/binaries-and-source-code-for-cenzics-wind
ows-nt-port-of-nessus-uploaded/
</plug>

Best regards
 Michael Boman

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