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Nessus 1.0.1 (Default)

Sections: Mac OS X, Unix

Added: Fri, Apr 10th 1998 13:51 UTC (10 years, 8 months ago)

Updated: Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:23 UTC (8 months, 24 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.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
Better SMB checks (by poking into the remote registry and checking permissions), use of gmp 3.0, fixes for graph generation bugs and memory leaks, improved performance, and improved Nessus update plugins.

Author:
[contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.nessus.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.nessus.org/download/
Mailing list archive:
http://list.nessus.org/
Demo site:
http://www.nessus.org/demo/

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]
GTK+ 1.2.10 (recommended)
OpenSSL 0.9.7a (recommended)
[download links]

» Rating: 8.58/10.00 (Rank 245)
» Vitality: 0.11% (Rank 916)
» Popularity: 14.80% (Rank 96)

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   Record hits: 100,990
   URL hits: 77,981
   Subscribers: 464

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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

Releases

Version Focus Date

2.2.4 Minor feature enhancements 23-Mar-2005 17:04

2.2.3 Minor feature enhancements 11-Feb-2005 03:32

2.2.2a Minor bugfixes 20-Dec-2004 04:58

2.2.0 Major feature enhancements 28-Oct-2004 13:46

2.0.12 Major bugfixes 22-Jul-2004 01:14

2.0.11 Minor bugfixes 20-Jul-2004 03:16

2.0.9 Minor feature enhancements 06-Nov-2003 00:26

2.0.8 Minor bugfixes 02-Oct-2003 20:53

2.0.6a Minor bugfixes 31-May-2003 23:12

2.0.4 N/A 05-May-2003 04:34

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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