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Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year
From: Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 06:56:00 +0000
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:31:49 -0700 or thereabouts stripes <stripes () tigerlair com> wrote:
Hi Fyodor, Check out OpenVAS, http://www.openvas.org. It's a FOSS replacement for Nessus. I believe it's off the last GNU version. -Anne
IIRC the primary motivation for closing the Nessus source was that the developers felt like they didn't get enough community contribution to either the engine or plugins to justify not trying to turn it into a commercial product. I suspect OvenVAS has the same trouble. The design of Nessus was rather poor and hackish -- no one really *enjoyed* writing plugins for it. The real power of Nessus is in all the work that has been done to support DCE/RPC/SNMP/SMB/SSL etc. As with Metasploit and other popular frameworks, the included libraries are the killer-app. When new vulnerability are discovered or exploits come out people want the Nessus or Metasploit plugin. Nmap with NSE hasn't been out long enough for people to say "Where's the NSE script?". Nmap will do well because NSE is designed well and getting better by the day (thanks Diman, David, and Patrick). NSE is still picking up that critical mass it needs for it to be come a "household name" like Nessus but I'm confident that it will get there. Brandon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkg1GQcACgkQqaGPzAsl94L61wCgnS3KpqjtJ5Ejj4oRKOzZfO6+ TQwAnjxM9E78Nvl908ZzPEjKZVBnazPH =IX24 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Fyodor (May 21)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year stripes (May 21)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Brandon Enright (May 21)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year DePriest, Jason R. (May 22)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Brandon Enright (May 21)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Renaud Deraison (lists) (May 21)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Fyodor (May 22)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Renaud Deraison (lists) (May 22)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Fyodor (May 22)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year Fyodor (May 22)
- Re: Nessus free version cancelled, now $1200/year stripes (May 21)