[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm concerned with losing my data... DoS attacks > just annoy people but don't destroy property or > data right?
There is (at least?) one test that might delete data: http_methods.nasl It checks if the DELETE method is implemented by trying to remove the file it just uploaded with PUT. If the upload failed, it will attack index.html or index.asp... AFAIK this is the only test that has this kind of behaviour. For all other tests, we can imagine that a machine will never recover from a really bad crash but I never saw that after a Nessus scan. Modern journalized file systems (NTFS, Ext3FS, ReiserFS, JFS, VxFS...) are robust enough to save your information after a system crash. #mode Niccolo_Machiavelli on If you do not fear any political consequences of such a crash, you shouldn't worry. Otherwise, i.e. if one of your machine always crashes at the worst moment and if the guy who is responsible is a [insert your favourite deadly insult here] who always tries to blame somebody else for his own mistakes, then you'd better ask to have backups before you run the tests, even with "safe checks". Cf. nessus-core/doc/WARNING.En - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
