Re: Nessus scan DoS
"George A. Theall" <[email protected]>
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On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Yanyan Wang wrote: > I have brought down many more servers this month than I ever did in > the past even though I had disabled DoS. What went wrong? Thank you. One possible problem is that you're enabling Thorough tests (under the 'Global variable settings' drop-down menu on the 'Advanced' tab). This causes Nessus to try running many of the service detection plugins against all open ports, not just those on the associated well-known service port. George -- [email protected] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus