Re: [PEN-TEST] looking for local audit tool

["Covington, James (ISS California)" <JCovington () ISS NET>]

 There's two other nifty little scanners out there now....nsat and rvscan.
Not quite as thorough as Nessus, but much easier to configure and run.
Sorry, don't have the links to 'em handy. Just do a search on
http://packetstorm.securify.com

-Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Brent Woodfield
To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Sent: 12/19/00 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-TEST] looking for local audit tool

Nessus, SAINT, etc...most of these can be found on http://freshmeat.net
or
http://packetstorm.securify.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Williams" <btw () ENIAC MINE NU>
To: <PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:19 AM
Subject: [PEN-TEST] looking for local audit tool


> Hello everyone,
> what tool would you suggest that can scan a Linux system for all known
> exploitable programs? I am just looking for a simple host scanner that
> is open source and doesn't bother checking configuration errors but
> just tells me which programs need upgrading.
>
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