Re: NESSUS

[Peter Moody <peter () UCSC EDU>]

Phillip G Deneault wrote:
> A similar setup in a prepacked form can be found here:
> http://vsc-dev.itsp.purdue.edu/
>
> Purdue did away with their ISS scanner in favor of this solution.  It
> works very well.  I'm hoping to upgrade to this version this summer.

For the folks who are using a solution like this, can you tell me how
Service Pack 2 has affected its usability?  Common sense would say
that a host-based firewall turned on by default on 80% of my desktop
machines would make any significant purchases in desktop scanning sw/hw
a waste.

But I could be wrong, it's happened before.

Regards,
-Peter

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Peter Moody                             <peter () ucsc edu>
Information Security Administrator          831/459.5409
Information and Technology Services.      UC, Santa Cruz
http://security.ucsc.edu/pgp/peter.moody.pub      AS5739
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