Re: General question

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

Well, I don't know of any tools offhand that fit your requirements, but I 
do know of a tool that might work for you if you can get your hands on an 
old machine.

Nessus is not completely ported to windows, but the GUI client side is. I'd 
try to find some old, discarded Pentium or 486 computer and install a 
minimal *nix config on it and install nessusd, and use stronger windows box 
as the GUI client. I don't think (although I'm not sure) that the nessusd 
requires much CPU/RAM/disk to run, I suspect that most of the tough work is 
done in the client.

I have a 486-120 w/12MB of ram at home with redhat 6.2 on it (upgraded and 
tweaked a bit), and I might try setting this up in my spare time.

www.nessus.org

other tools to look at are saint and satan, but I don't think the latter is 
up-to-date at all.

At 10:19 AM 12/7/2001, SkatFiend () aol com wrote:
> I am working in preety much an all Microsoft environment and am in need of 
> a good Win32 (NT, Win2k) based vulerability scanner. Can anyone suggest a 
> good open source software vulerability scanner that run on a Win32 platform?
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Thank you, Cliff Arms