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RE: Nessus, Harmful?
From: "Swaminathan, Balaji" <Balaji.Swaminathan () kla-tencor com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:19:44 +0530
You can disable the Dangerous/Denial of Service (DOS)plugins or enable Non-Dos depending upon the version of Nessus you are using. If you know your target type, you can confine only to the related plugins for scanning. Enable safe checks. Number of Parallel SYN checks and ICMP Ping can be reduced. These are the things that I know which we need to keep in mind so that we doesn't crash the target. Let us wait for even more better ideas from others. Regards, Balaji Swaminathan .M -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Zaki Akhmad Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:17 PM To: pen-test () securityfocus com Subject: Nessus, Harmful? Hello, I want to do a nessus scanning, but before I'd like to know is it nessus scanning harmful? Because I don't want to make the server down. Thanks! -- Zaki Akhmad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified. http://www.iacertification.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This list is sponsored by: Information Assurance Certification Review Board Prove to peers and potential employers without a doubt that you can actually do a proper penetration test. IACRB CPT and CEPT certs require a full practical examination in order to become certified. http://www.iacertification.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Nessus, Harmful? Zaki Akhmad (Jan 11)
- RE: Nessus, Harmful? Swaminathan, Balaji (Jan 11)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Mohamed Aymen SAHLI (Jan 11)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Adel Abushaev (Jan 11)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Joseph J. Snyder III (Jan 11)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? John Jasen (Jan 28)
- RE: Nessus, Harmful? Genaro Liriano (Jan 28)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Jeremy Brown (Jan 28)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Adriel T. Desautels (Jan 28)
- RE: Nessus, Harmful? Genaro Liriano (Jan 28)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Shohn Trojacek (Jan 28)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Himanshu Goyal (Jan 28)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? bugs (Jan 29)
- Re: Nessus, Harmful? Himanshu Goyal (Jan 28)
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