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Re: SATAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE
From: jstott () poly phys cwru edu (Jonathan Stott)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 14:14:26 -0400
1. It is HUGE. It eats up tons of disk and ram space. [...]
You don't need to load the whole thing to run the scan (see below). It's disk space requirements are proportional to the number of hosts you plan on scanning.
2. It requires installing other packages like perl. Most hackers aren't able to run anything unless it's a no brainer script. "Gee the bad thing is we've been hacked and someone used SATAN, the good thing is that we got perl5 and a web browser installed."
Fortunately:-)
3. Since you have to use a web browser, you have to either run SATAN from the console (umm, really stupid hacker scanning from his own machine) or redirect the X Display to his own machine (still really stupid). [...]
You don't need a web browser to run the scan, the command line works just fine. For example satan -a 2 somehost will run a 'heavy' scan against somehost without going through the browser. The browser becomes really handy when you want to view the results (but even so, it's not essential - you could make do with just grep if you were really stuck). -JS
Current thread:
- Re: SATAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE Jonathan Stott (Apr 07)
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- Re: SATAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE Tim Scanlon (Apr 10)
- Re: SATAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE Stephen Potter (Apr 10)
- Re: SATAN ATTACKS EVERYWHERE Niels Bakker (Apr 13)