Re: Nessus for port scanning --

Michel Arboi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Organization Nessus
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 15:24:19 P. Remek wrote:

> Even with this minimal setting I can see lot of data going out to the scan
> target.
> I have captured about 130-150 packets going to and from various ports
> (ftp,http etc.)

If you set "consider unscanned ports as closed", then the TCP activity 
probably comes from the TCP ping (ping_host.nasl)
And UDP services are always scanned.
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