Re: Questions: nmap, nessus unreliability, setting up a packet capture box, using Impacket

[James Davis <jamesd () jml net>]

Anders Thulin wrote:

>   nessus -- I don't trust it.  It may provide leads, but each needs to
> be verified independently. Haven't checked it recently, but I 
remember > that I found that testing vulnerabilities in ONC RPC services 
trusted > the portmapper data entirely, and didn't even check that the
> identified ports did in fact run the announced services, and that was 
> below the reporting quality I want.

Your feedback would have been well received on the nessus-plugins list. 
Nessus mostly depends upon volunteers to write, submit, and suggest 
improvements to plugins. I'm not saying you should have to learn NASL 
and script them yourself, but that there are many people who could have 
used your ideas. M apologies if you have already done that.

James

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