Re: families

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:53:19PM -0400, David Lodge wrote:
> For external systems, I'm restricting what I do on the scan, especially if I'm
> scanning over the internet. On this basis its better to restrict to protocol -
> if I see only http and ftp open then its not worth it performing DCE tests on
> the system. This is due to trying to restrict the amount of traffic, and due to
> having a limited time slot to perform the test in.

You're right, however it's not your job to do that, it's Nessus's, and
you could do that _today_ by using the option "consider unscanned ports
as closed".

> I think that for the next major release of Nessus, it may be worth looking at
> the header of the Plugin, allowing more choice of how one may select plugins -
> even if this does mean updating the protocol.

We might go by keywords, or something else. However it's low on my list.


				-- Renaud
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