Comments on: OpenVAS – Open Vulnerability Assessment System (Nessus is Back!)

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:34:47 +0000

Cool tool

Thanks Darknet!

By: razta

razta — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:03:22 +0000

I couldn’t manage to get it to compile so I gave up in the end.

By: Navin

Navin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:33:45 +0000

Righto Pantagruel, nessus was one of the first tools I’d gotten into when I first started studying network security!! Definitely on my weekend “to-do” list.

By: Morgan Storey

Morgan Storey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:56:14 +0000

YAY, I loved Nessus great for doing a quick scan and creates a great report to give to management for a look see moment…
The only problem I can see here is the reason Nessus went Closed, wasn’t it simply due to costs of hosting and serving the updates and modules, at least thats what I thought there reasoning was. But isn’t it still free for home use?
Don’t get me wrong I am all for open source and ability to see the source, but I can see reasons against it, people need to eat.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:44:22 +0000

Came across it this morning.
It’s good to have ‘nessus’ back in the GPL field, will definately give it a go this weekend