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RE: nessus returning an empty report
From: "Sol Invictus" <sol () haveyoubeentested org>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:24:15 -0500
1. Check your Firewall on the host. 2. Ensure you have at least 1 plugin selected. 3. Try scanning the local host. 4. if all else fails post to the Nessus list. ;-) Also if you have a commercial feed, try emailing support () tenablesecurity com. Hope that helps. -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of infolookup () gmail com Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:26 PM To: Robin Wood; listbounce () securityfocus com; pen-test list Subject: Re: nessus returning an empty report Robing, I think you can get a Nessus VMware appliance that comes preconfigured maybe you could grab that and compare there setup to yours, since I have not play around with nessus lately I don't have anything else to add. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:26:24 To: pen-test list<pen-test () securityfocus com> Subject: nessus returning an empty report Hi I've just installed nessus on a new machine and when I try to scan a target I always get back an empty report message. I've got wireshark running and no traffic gets sent from the scanner so the standard answer to this problem of it being a ping issue doesn't help here. Extra to that, the machines I've tried scanning are on my local network, all respond to pings and are are up and not firewalled in any way that would stop nessus at least finding them. I had this problem with another machine ages ago and it turned out to be a kernel module that I was missing. I've tried googling to find the fix that I found last time but I can't find it. Can anyone help? The server is running on an Archlinux distro if that helps. Robin ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Cenzic Security Trends Report from Cenzic Stay Ahead of the Hacker Curve! Get the latest Q2 2008 Trends Report now www.cenzic.com/landing/trends-report ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Cenzic Security Trends Report from Cenzic Stay Ahead of the Hacker Curve! Get the latest Q2 2008 Trends Report now www.cenzic.com/landing/trends-report ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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