Re: nessus scan errors

"George A. Theall" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> I think I've asked this before, and I turned safe checks off, but am  
> still seeing the same message:
> *** The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or  
> hosts
> have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security
> audit to be complete
> I'd like my security audit to be complete--how do I enable these  
> plugins?

If you're indeed willing to enable plugins that intentionally try to  
be destructive (for example, crashing a service or causing a kernel  
panic on a target), then disable safe checks, either by setting  
'safe_checks' to "no" in the client config or unchecking "Safe checks"  
in the client.

George
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