Re: Unix auditing tools - Windows based.

[John Lampe <jwlampe () tenablesecurity com>]

Gareth Davies wrote:

> The best I can recommend is running Linux in a VMWare environment on 
> your machine with Nessus server running in it, then run the graphical 
> client on Windows.

Or, just run Nessus3 (current is version 3.0.3) for Windows...both the 
client and server reside on the same machine.  Download @ 
http://www.nessus.org/download/


> Also for ISS Internet Security Scanner very good for UNIX systems Nessus 
> best for Linux systems.

Nessus3 does very good job with Linux and other *nixes...I am, however, 
a bit biased ;-)


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John Lampe
Senior Security Researcher
TENABLE Network Security, Inc.
jwlampe@{nessus.org,tenablesecurity.com}
Tele: (410) 872-0555
www.tenablesecurity.com

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