This is interesting. My script checks installed plugins that have their script_category value set to either 'act_destructive_attack' or 'act_denial'. Of course, after reading the information below, I'm now concerned about the 'act_attack' catagory and I'm wondering if I should add it to my checks. I don't believe any .nasl scripts currently use this category and therefore, I'm hoping you (or someone) can elaborate on it's role in the grand scheme of things. More specifically, I'm wondering:
1. If a script is catagorized as act_attack, is it considered to be intrusive? (e.g. act_destructive_attack) 2. Are there any plugins that currently use this category? Best, Adam " On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:13:10PM -0500, Robert Timko wrote: " " > I am having a bitch of a time with the .nessusrc file and understanding " > it (is there any documentation direclty related to .nessusrc?) . Scanner " > Set section in particular is whats confused me. What does it do? " " Plugins are classified into one of several categories, described in " doc/WARNING.En, under the nessus-core source tree. At least with Nessus " 1.2.7, these categories are: ACT_ATTACK, ACT_DENIAL, " ACT_DESTRUCTIVE_ATTACK, ACT_INFOS, ACT_MIXED, ACT_SCANNER, ACT_SETTINGS, " and ACT_UNKNOWN. " " In the Nessus client configuration file, those plugins classed as " ACT_SCANNER, which refer to some type of port scanner or ping, would be " listed in the SCANNER_SET block; the others would be in PLUGIN_SET. " " > has anyone written a script to perhaps update .nessusrc plugins " > selection w/o using the GUI? " " Yes, I have. See <http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/>. It's " free and should work on any unix-like system with Perl 5 and Nessus " 1.1.14 or better. " " George " -- " [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "Silly hacker, root is for administrators" - Unknown GnuPG Key : 11C2 79F6 BD3D 3A86 5640 3DA0 3860 B30E 711D 3B66
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