Re: families
Renaud Deraison <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ Nessus-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus-devel