Nessus is for unix and free, and one of (if not the) best.
On Thursday 14 March 2002 01:47 pm, Daniel Hay wrote:
> Hi guys, thanks for all the replies, most of you have been pointing me
> to windows based scanners, im sorry if i didnt specify in my original
> email but id MUCH prefer it to be a unix based scanner, Freeware /
> commercial either way it doesnt bother me. Thanks for your help
>
> D
>
> Michael Perez wrote:
> >Look at the product Retina from www.eeye.com . It's one of the best
> > security scanners out there.
> >
> >"Retina includes vulnerability auditing modules for many systems and
> > services. These include: NetBIOS, HTTP, CGI and WinCGI, FTP, DNS, DoS
> > vulnerabilities, POP3, SMTP, LDAP, TCP/IP, UDP, Registry, Services, Users
> > and Accounts, password vulnerabilities, publishing extensions, and more."
> >
> >"Retina runs on the Windows NT platform, but unlike its peers, it is not
> > limited to only scanning Windows NT networks for vulnerabilities. In fact
> > Retina has the ability to scan all types of operating systems, including
> > most Unix operating systems (Solaris, Linux, *BSD etc...) and networked
> > devices (routers, firewalls etc...) that run home grown operating
> > systems."
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
>
> From: Daniel Hay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:48 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Vulnerability Scanning large networks
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> > I was hoping to get some advice on vulnerability scanning large
> >networks, currently i need to scan about 9,000+ hosts in a mixed OS (
> >windows * / linux / unix / AIX etc etc you name it i'm sure we have it
> >here someplace hehe :)) network, at the moment im attempting to use
> >various nessus scans to do it in 450 ip chunks its just not an idea
> >situation as i'm sure you guys can can see, however when ever i do more
> >than 450 nessus & nessusd constantly core dump, so i was hoping to get
> >some feedback on other ways/products that are in use to do something
> >similar to this.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Danny
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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