Using the Linux Nessus client, I launched a single test against a host and selected just these plugins (safe mode, optimized): ping_host (ICMP) http_version apache_ssl_overflow apache_chunked_encoding
When I check my nessusd.messages log, I see that these plugins also ran before my tests: logins smb_scope smtp_settings http_ids_evasion ids_evasion third_party_domain According to the log, this only took 3 seconds to accomplish, but when I'm scanning a class B network, that adds up to 55 hours. Assuming a best case where running in parallel, they run just as fast and I run 30 concurrent hosts, that still adds up to almost 2 hours extra for these tests. Is there a way to turn them off for such minimal tests as I listed above? If I ran the tests with 1 concurrent test per host and the ping_host failed, would Nessus stop before running the other tests? Right now, I'm running with 10 concurrent tests (to catch all the above tests), but that way it has to wait for the three other tests I ran to time-out waiting on port 80. Thanks, Owen Crow Systems Programmer (Unix) BMC Software, Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
