Re: VA vs PT tool

[Brad Mills <millsmiami () usa net>]

James, et al -

> I didn't see this on your list below but I would be surprised if no one
> had suggested it...
>
> Nessus (www.nessus.org) will do *some* of that depending upon the
> vulnerability and how you configure Nessus to do the scan.  The
> following are advantages/disadvantages depending upon your point of
> view:
>
> 1.  Runs on Linux (as a server, there are clients for other platforms
> for driving the scans)
> 2.  Open-source
 (snips)

 (...for windows guys) Grab the latest Knoppix 650-meg *.iso, burn to a CD. 
Boot most any modern machine from it, has Nessus in there, ready to go. May not 
be 'minutes fresh' on updates, but indeed, grabs it's IP from your dhcp server, 
and is ready to rumble in minutes. Best of all, it doesn't touch your windows 
partitions. As well, has ethereal, and nmap installed. An amazing distibution, 
indeedie.
 
 .02,
 /b



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