RE: nessus returning an empty report

["Sol Invictus" <sol () haveyoubeentested org>]

1. Check your Firewall on the host.
2. Ensure you have at least 1 plugin selected.
3. Try scanning the local host.
4. if all else fails post to the Nessus list.   ;-)

Also if you have a commercial feed, try emailing
support () tenablesecurity com.

Hope that helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of infolookup () gmail com
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:26 PM
To: Robin Wood; listbounce () securityfocus com; pen-test list
Subject: Re: nessus returning an empty report

Robing,

I think you can get a Nessus VMware appliance that comes preconfigured maybe
you could grab that and compare there setup to yours, since I have not play
around with nessus lately I don't have anything else to add.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: "Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:26:24 
To: pen-test list<pen-test () securityfocus com>
Subject: nessus returning an empty report


Hi
I've just installed nessus on a new machine and when I try to scan a
target I always get back an empty report message. I've got wireshark
running and no traffic gets sent from the scanner so the standard
answer to this problem of it being a ping issue doesn't help here.
Extra to that, the machines I've tried scanning are on my local
network, all respond to pings and are are up and not firewalled in any
way that would stop nessus at least finding them.

I had this problem with another machine ages ago and it turned out to
be a kernel module that I was missing. I've tried googling to find the
fix that I found last time but I can't find it.

Can anyone help? The server is running on an Archlinux distro if that helps.

Robin

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