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Nessus 3.0.5

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Price: Free
Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
Date added: April 27, 2007
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From The Nessus Project :

The Nessus Project provides a free, powerful, up-to-date, and easy-to-use remote security scanner. It is designed to remotely audit a given network and determine whether it is vulnerable to hackers or other types of malicious attacks. Unlike other security scanners, Nessus will detect all used ports and physically test their security. It does not make its security assessment based on the version number of the remote services, but will actually attempt to exploit the vulnerability.

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Version: Nessus 3.0.5

"Good solid product"

by hackertarget on June 30, 2009

Pros: Solid product with decent support from Tenable.
Good performance, testing servers for thousands of vulnerabilities in only a few minutes.
Easy to install - version 4 is even easier, giving even non-technical users access to vulnerability managment.

Cons: Full plugin feed now costs $1200 / year. For the professional feed.
Occasional false positives.

Summary: For many years Nessus was the leading vulnerability scanner as an open source product. This has not changed, it is still an excellent product. While an open source alternative exists in openVas, it is at present not as easy to install and get config... read more >>

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