Re: [PEN-TEST] ISS not detecting unicode bug??

[Renaud Deraison <deraison () CVS NESSUS ORG>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:40:13PM -0500, Eric Budke wrote:
> No opinion about Nessus, but the one thing that ISS and NAI have going for
> them is a way of pushing out (not technically pushing) updated.  I've got
> hundreds of emails across a couple of mail clients of things to go back to,
> or to look at. There was a time I'd grab almost every linux kernel and
> upgrade all my boxes (until I moved to a laptop where kernel upgrades cause
> things like PCMCIA cards to stop working). It isn't really that practical.
> Nmap for a period (and I'm sure it will happen again) where there were
> updates every day or two. Few admins have the available bandwidth to deal
> with that. Especially if you aren't using it every day.

Nessus comes with the utility "nessus-update-plugins" which
automatically retrieves all the newest plugins. Call it on a daily
basis, and you'll have an up-to-date tool.


                                -- Renaud