I use it stand alone as well as the integrated version in Alien Vault/OSSIM. It works well enough for a 7500 employee company.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Brandon Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvas-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
