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Nessus 990201
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Renaud Deraison)
Mon Feb 1 13:55:53 1999
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 00:07:11 +0100
Reply-To: Renaud Deraison <deraison@NESSUS.ORG>
From: Renaud Deraison <deraison@NESSUS.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Paris, 1st Feb.
I am pleased to announce the availability of Nessus 990201.
Nessus is a security scanner released under the GPL, the
full description of which has already been posted on this
list several months ago, so I will not redescribe it once
more in order to save everyone's bandwith.
This new version includes :
- more than 180 security checks
- a ciphered communication layer between the server and the
client (yes, this scanner is made up of a server, in charge
of the tests, and a client which is the frontend of the product)
- GTK 1.1 compatibility for the traditional Unix client.
For those who do not like the X11 client, a perl client
has written by Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>.
The Unix version of Nessus currently compiles under :
- Linux (glibc and libc)
- FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
- Solaris 2.6
It was also reported to compile under IRIX with gcc, but its
runtime behavior could not be tested under this environment.
You can download Nessus at :
http://www.nessus.org/download/unix.html
The perl client is available at :
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED
The archive name being : Net-Nessus-0.04.tar.gz
The Nessus website contains pointers to the Nessus mailing list
and FAQ -- be sure to check them out.
In the hope that this tool will be helpful to some people around
here,
-- Renaud Deraison
ps : Nessus is totally free -- there is no company behind it, and
the download page is advertisement free, at the opposite of
some others so-called "free" security scanners.
