RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN

[Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo () pvtpt com>]

Unfortunately not.  I tried that at first, but several of the VPN
clients block the traffic.

-----Original Message-----
From: mike jablonski [mailto:mkj () swissmail org] 
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:53 PM
To: Michael Gargiullo
Cc: michael.boman () gmail com; pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN

Couldn't you use VMware and bridge the NICs?

-- 
jabber
"paranoid by default"


Quoting Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo () pvtpt com>:

> Sweet, this is what I need.  I notice it only ships with 86 plugins.
Do
> you know if the others don't work at all, or is it a hit or miss
> situation with the other plugins?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Boman [mailto:michael.boman () gmail com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 2:19 AM
> To: Michael Gargiullo
> Cc: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: windows, nessus scanner, and a VPN
>
> On 9/9/05, Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo () pvtpt com> wrote:
> > Now for the question.  Does anyone know of a scanning tool that runs
> on
> > windows (Due to the different VPN clients used) other then NeWT.  I
> > don't have $7000 plus the $1200 a year in my budget for one scanning
> > tool.
>
> Nessus was recently ported to the Win32 platform by Cenzic
> (http://www.cenzic.com/nessusport.html). Not super-stable yet, but you
> can work around the issues (NessusD needs to be restarted between each
> scan).
>
> <plug type="shameless">
> I blogged about it at
http://proxy.11a.nu/2005/08/16/cenzic-releases-windows-nt-port-of-nessus
> -vulnerability-scanner/,
> and you can download the Win32 binaries (without filling in any
> registration and what not) from
http://proxy.11a.nu/2005/08/16/binaries-and-source-code-for-cenzics-wind
> ows-nt-port-of-nessus-uploaded/
> </plug>
>
> Best regards
>  Michael Boman
>
> -- 
> IT Security Researcher & Developer
> http://proxy.11a.nu
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