RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-25 Thread Bejon Parsinia
Zatko; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. I disagree on one small point: If you try out VPC5 you will see dramatic improvements; even more enhanced if you are using a G4 processor (the VPC5 takes advantage of the Altivec engine). My .02, Bill -Original Message- From

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-25 Thread William Holmberg
You don't know what you're missing! ;) -Original Message- From: Bejon Parsinia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:11 PM To: William Holmberg; 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. Bill, The only problem

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-25 Thread Gaziel, Avishay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I use nessus on my Compaq armada m-700 Laptop. The machine dual boots linux 7.1 and win2k pro without lilo or dual boot software. The reaason for that is my need for a portable box while performing security audits/pen tests at client's

Re: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-25 Thread securityfocus . com
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:53:13AM -0800, Bejon Parsinia wrote: I do dedicate a great deal of memory to the guest OS and still run into problems with performance. I'm not doing anything crazy like streaming video or running any kind of multimedia. But, I have just found dual boot to work

Re: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-22 Thread securityfocus . com
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:48:56AM -0800, Bejon Parsinia wrote: Here is what I would suggest. Definitely go with dual boot over a virtual OS installation. Why? I've used VMWare and I've used Virtual PC, neither of them allow any kind of real performance. Case in point, I have a P4 1.6 GHz

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-22 Thread William Holmberg
, March 20, 2002 11:49 AM To: 'Eric Zatko'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Nessus follow up question. Eric, Here is what I would suggest. Definitely go with dual boot over a virtual OS installation. Why? I've used VMWare and I've used Virtual PC, neither of them allow any kind of real

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-21 Thread Bejon Parsinia
Eric, Here is what I would suggest. Definitely go with dual boot over a virtual OS installation. Why? I've used VMWare and I've used Virtual PC, neither of them allow any kind of real performance. Case in point, I have a P4 1.6 GHz PC with 512 MB of RAM, the guest OS always ran poorly. No

Re: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-21 Thread dewt
It should work find with vmware, however nessus scans can take a long while on bigger networks, you might want to use something besides a laptop =P, the standard packages in linux distribs are sufficient for dual booting with windows, also nessus could run on an old machine you've junked by

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-21 Thread Trevor Cushen
Hello Eric, If you install Windows 2000 on a laptop with it's own partition then SuSE 7.2 afterwards you will have no problems at all. How do I know this???. It is exactly what I did and all is well. If you check the Linux sites or magazines you will find alot of votes for SuSE as the best

RE: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-21 Thread Rapaille Maxime
Hi Eric Just my 0.02ˆ.. I tried using Nessus on my laptop, within vmware (version 3 fow Win 2000, demo 30 days). I had no problem with it. Unless with a wireless card, that vmware can't support. In demo version. It has worked like a charm with a Free BSD minimal version, and with some other

Re: Nessus follow up question.

2002-03-21 Thread Radoslav Dejanovi
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 22:50, Eric Zatko wrote: Secondly, I will need to put Unix/Linux on a machine to use Nessus so I'm looking for advice. First, are there advantages to putting it on my laptop? If so, any recommendations for dual-boot software? Next, has You should put it on your