Not broken for me either. In fact, I have been using openvas for years
now and it has been absolutely great (although I admit I use it
conjunction with other tools). I think openvas is a shining example of
how well an open source tool can be maintained. Kudos to the developers.

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: 
> this crap does not work since 8 months
> it was intented to do one scan per month
> 
> well, it did exactly 3 scans with a HUGE false-positive
> 2 of the 3 - i can not imagine less help at all
> 
> and yes i tried the appliance which was a stripped down
> SuSE wiithout zypper and did not work at all becuse it
> scanned exactly 3 seconds per host, it did not remeber
> password changes - it was unusable and needed a week
> to get it run the first time
> 
> sorry - but quality does not look like that
> 
> Am 31.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Scott Damron:
> > Wow!  That was pretty venomous.  I bet you get lots of help now.
> > 
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> nice - but the base of CentOS is stoneold
> >> it is based on Fedora12/13
> >> until Fedora 15 openvas worked
> >> now we have fedora 17 and soon F18
> >>
> >> since HUNDRETS of packages are working well with
> >> the gnutls of recent distributions and only openVAS
> >> does onot run since nearly a year it is pretty clear
> >> that openVAS is HORRIBLE broken
> >>
> >> WHY in the world was the switch to gnutls done instead
> >> use openssl which works since decades relieable?
> >>
> >> yes it is open source
> >> but my whole environment is based on opensource and
> >> only openVAS is simply not useable and for sure not
> >> a valid reason to make the rest of the infrastructure
> >> quetsionsable which works since Fedora 9, was upgraded
> >> ONLINE to F17 with YUM (which means online)
> >>
> >> well, i speak here about some hundret of domains
> >> and a hughe count of different services which works
> >> 100% perfect over years and the WebUI of a security
> >> scanner is fucking too stupid to connect with it's
> >> backends which does not require ot be foolishly encrypted
> >> on lcoal host at all
> >>
> >> finally only a lot of wasted hours to get this crap running
> >> in 2011-12 too see it dying after THREE secscans - a joke
> >>
> >> Am 31.10.2012 21:21, schrieb Schulte:
> >>> with CentOS 6.3 it works.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Openvas-discuss
> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ext
> >>> Eero Volotinen
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 19:33
> >>> To: Reindl Harald
> >>> Cc: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] openvas gnutls bug again?
> >>>
> >>> 2012/10/31 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 31.10.2012 17:02, schrieb Eero Volotinen:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Tried to install openvas on latest debian and still seeing this
> >>> gnutls
> >>>>> bug:
> >>> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-devel/2012-July/00295
> >>> 1.html
> >>>>>
> >>>>> how to fix this issue? (without compling openvas from sources?)
> >>>>
> >>>> i was NEVER able to get GSA working past Fedora 15
> >>>> gnutls-2.12.17-1.fc17.x86_64
> >>>
> >>> sad :( so fix for openvas 5 is only in svn trunk? is there any distro
> >>> that works out of box with openvas 5?
> 
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