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Nessus 3.2.0 (3.x)

Sections: Mac OS X, Unix

Added: Fri, Apr 10th 1998 13:51 UTC (10 years, 5 months ago)

Updated: Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:23 UTC (5 months, 26 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: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
IPv6 is supported. Control of network bandwidth usage during scanning was improved. Granular access control rules were implemented to limit users to specific ports and audits. The Nessus Server capability was extended to query remote Windows systems with WMI.

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 240)
» Vitality: 0.32% (Rank 745)
» Popularity: 14.78% (Rank 96)

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   Record hits: 99,305
   URL hits: 77,633
   Subscribers: 467

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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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