Re: Port scanner range problem

"Sylvain Lapendry" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Nessus TCP Scanner" is the only plugin checked, and "Consider unscanned
port closed" is enable, but I still have some packets whose destinations are
other ports than those in the "Port scanner range" field.

2008/10/17 Ron Gula <[email protected]>

> Sylvain Lapendry wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a problem with the Nessus TCP scanner, especially with the port
> > range. I just want to scan a few ports (ie 21, 22, 80), so I've only
> checked
> > "Nessus TCP scanner", put 21,22,80 in "Port scanner range", and disable
> ALL
> > the plugins. But when I start the scan, I can see some packets whose
> > destinations are 123, 135, 445... Is the port scanner ranger really works
> ??
> >
>
> Is the port scanner the only plugin you have enabled? It sounds like you
> might
> have some other plugins working. You should also enabled the "consider
> unscanned
> ports closed" setting.
>
> Ron
>
>

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