Michael Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> There are already some tooltips available

Those ones are hard coded. 
To give information on "Prefs", we have to put the text into the NASL
scripts and modify the client / server protocol. That is not so
difficult, AFAIK, because the protocol can handle "options".

> >An integrist test is a test written by me that destroy the root of
> >your root server if it is not protected against the DELETE method :-]

> Ahhh, .... well .... so what does it do?

It sends "DELETE / HTTP/1.x"

> It sounds like just another plugin

http_methods.nasl

> Why does it require an extra entry in the frontend? 

Because many people destroyed the root page of their web site!
So Renaud disabled the test but I really wanted it, so I put it back
with a "Pref". 

> >> Do I have to specify user names if the SMB plugins can retrieve a list
> >> of users from a Windows machine?
> >No, AFAIK.
> That means I have to run Nessus twice to get reasonable results?

I think I did not understand your first question :-\

> not ("dangerous plugins") != "undangerous plugins" ???
> Does that mean you do not really trust your own classification?

Yes we do. But we trust crapy software to crash when you simply look
at it.
Read this: nessus-core/doc/WARNING.En 
(or WARNING.Fr if you prefer the original version in French)

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