On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 at 15:19, Migs Paraz wrote:
> not even the manpage, just the help screen ;)
Oh...
> Nmap V. 2.54BETA29 Usage: nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] <host or net list>
> Some Common Scan Types ('*' options require root privileges)
> ...
> * -sU UDP port scan
> ...
Now I know why I didn't see that. I use nmapfe. Hahaha. ;>
> nmap only looks for open ports, and doesn't attempt to poke into them.
> that's used by those who build exploit code who learn prospects via
> nmap's machine readable output format.
For which reason I believe nessus is a much powerful tool. Well, aside
from the fact that nessus also uses nmap to do the portscanning. Nessus
has a library of tools called plugins that are continuously updated. This
allows the tester to know if the system has any vulnerabilities based on
the existing known exploits. :)
But no, I wasn't discounting the importance of nmap, or any other decent
portscanner. I just wanted to point out that for what it's able to do,
nessus is well worth whatever "configuring" you have to do.
--> Jijo
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