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RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN
From: Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo () pvtpt com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:32:23 -0400
Unfortunately not. I tried that at first, but several of the VPN clients block the traffic. -----Original Message----- From: mike jablonski [mailto:mkj () swissmail org] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:53 PM To: Michael Gargiullo Cc: michael.boman () gmail com; pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Couldn't you use VMware and bridge the NICs? -- jabber "paranoid by default" Quoting Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo () pvtpt com>:
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 runsonwindows (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 -- IT Security Researcher & Developer http://proxy.11a.nu
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Current thread:
- windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Michael Gargiullo (Sep 11)
- Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Michael Boman (Sep 12)
- Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Josh Zlatin-Amishav (Sep 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Michael Gargiullo (Sep 12)
- RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Michael Gargiullo (Sep 14)
- Re: RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN aldo (Sep 14)
- Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN Michael Boman (Sep 12)