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Nessus - Remote network security auditor

Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other Unices. It is plug-in-based, has a GTK interface, and performs over 1800 remote security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, XML, LaTeX, and ASCII text, and suggests solutions for security problems.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.nessus.org/
Source tarball http://ftp.nessus.org/nessus/nessus-2.0.8a/src/nessus-core-2.0.8a.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.nessus.org/nessus_2_0.html
Version 2.0.8 (stable) released on 2003-10-02
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<deraison@cvs.nessus.org>
Developer List<deraison@cvs.nessus.org>
Bug List<deraison@cvs.nessus.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Interfacescommand line, daemon, X Window System
Source languagesC
Weak prerequisitesGTK+ 1.2.10 or later, Open SSl 0.9.7a or later
Related programsSNORT, Radius

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-10-03
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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