Re: Product query: Professor Messer's Nmap Secrets

[Eric Yeoh <ericyeoh () streamyx com>]

I guess not everyone likes to go through the bone dry man pages and the 
geeky write ups. There is a market for such material from Prof. Messner.

I bought his ebook and it was good. Although it cost me a week's lunch 
(I am from Malaysia, so US$1 approx. RM3.80). Saved me a lot of time.

So at the end of the day, the material inside can be obtained from 
forums and man pages, but if you want the convenience of things, you 
just have to pay for it.

Eric

Buz Dale wrote:
> I think I'd just read everything I could from insecure.org.
> Buz
>
> On 10 Apr 2007 13:29:54 -0000, krymson () gmail com <krymson () gmail com> 
> wrote:
> > I don't know, $200 is pretty hefty just to have someone show you how 
> > to use nmap. I would say if you haven't used or don't understand 
> > nmap, you could take advantage of this as opposed to a book or just 
> > actually using nmap or having someone you know show you the ropes.
> >
> > While I think someone completely new to nmap will benefit the most, I 
> > wonder if someone completely new to nmap might not know just what 
> > nmap does. It won't secure your network or vuln scan your boxes, but 
> > it will do reconnaissance and port scanning (and some 
> > fingerprinting). The feature set is not huge or world-moving and 
> > honestly anyone who has business running nmap should be able to read 
> > the help/man and quickly learn the ropes of the options.