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Nessus - 3.x branch

Sections: Mac OS X, Unix

Added: Fri, Apr 10th 1998 13:51 UTC (10 years, 3 months ago)

Updated: Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:23 UTC (4 months, 14 days ago)

About:
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. It is plugin-based and performs over 20,000 security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, and suggests a solution for each finding.

Author:
[contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.nessus.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.nessus.org/download/

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment] Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience] End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License] Free To Use But Restricted, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), Other/Proprietary License with Source
[Operating System] POSIX
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] Security

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

» Rating: 8.58/10.00 (Rank 239)
» Vitality: 0.26% (Rank 626)
» Popularity: 14.74% (Rank 97)

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   Record hits: 98,550
   URL hits: 77,474
   Subscribers: 468

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 2.2.4 23-Mar-2005 Other/Proprietary License with Source

2.x
The GPL branch of the scanner. 2.2.11 14-Mar-2008 GNU General Public License (GPL)

3.x 3.2.0 13-Mar-2008 Free To Use But Restricted

Experimental 2.1.1 22-Jul-2004 GNU General Public License (GPL)

Releases

Version Focus Date

3.2.0 Major feature enhancements 13-Mar-2008 15:47

3.0.4 Minor feature enhancements 30-Oct-2006 22:22

3.0.2 Initial freshmeat announcement 08-Mar-2006 21:08

Comments

[»] It's not open-source anymore!
by MC - Oct 6th 2005 13:33:05

Starting version 3.0 it's going to be free but not open-source!

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