Re: Nessus 3.2.0 and Windows 2000 Professional

"Renaud Deraison (lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 30, 2008, at 4:31 AM, Bob Babcock wrote:

>> Has anyone been able to successfully install Nessus 3.2.0 on Windows
>> 2000 Professional?  I am encountering the error "Error 1920. Service
>> Tenable Nessus (Tenable Nessus) failed to start. Verify that you have
>> sufficient privileges to start system services."
>
> The 3.2 service uses a DLL entry point that is only available in XP  
> and
> higher.   I made a bugzilla entry for this, but I don't know if  
> they're going
> to change this or not.  If not, I'll probably move my scanning to a  
> Linux
> virtual machine.  2000 is a better OS for scanning than XP because  
> it doesn't
> have a limit on the number of half-open TCP/IP connections.


This issue is being worked on and will be addressed as part of 3.2.1.


				-- Renaud
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