Re: [NSE] DoS script: smb-flood.nse

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, alexandru <alex () hackd net> wrote:
> Maybe this marks a need to host some kind of script repository that includes one-off, special purpose scripts that 
> might not need to be distributed with Nmap (because that kind of implies supporting those scripts) but otherwise 
> interesting to some percentage of users? Could even be that most (new) unsafe scripts aren't shipped, so that nobody 
> 'accidentally' starts crashing machines.

I think the problem stems from the abuse of the "all" category (which
is really a pseudo category). Users should really be using the "safe"
category which will encompass all scripts that don't do anything that
should annoy/aggravate network/system admins.

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
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