Re: Nessus scripts and Moore's Law

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, George Theall wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:06:29PM +0100, Michel Arboi wrote:
>
> > I have come with several possibilities to reduce the overall scanning
> > time:
>
> What are people's feelings about combining related plugins, especially
> those that rely on simple version strings? For example, I count 9
> plugins named apache_2_0_*.nasl, most of which do nothing more than
> check the banner.  It seems to me that they could be replaced by a
> single plugin that checks the banner against the latest version and is
> updated as new versions and vulnerabilities are announced.  [ Perhaps
> nessus-update-plugins could be augmented to support removing plugins
> (optionally??) to help with this. ]

Considre this message the virtual hand raised in support of this
suggestion. (Of combining plugins that are quite similar to one another.)

Hugo.

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