~Kevin Davis�
What could possibly go wrong? ----- Original Message ----- From: "H D Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 5:08 AM Subject: Re: Nessus 1.2.7 is out >Although Renaud made some awesome performance improvements to more than >half of the plugin set, a couple plugins which everything else depends on >actually take significantly longer to run due to massive enhancements. >A good example of this is webmirror.nasl. This plugin had a huge set of >changes made to it that allow it to track web site directories and common >misconfigurations as it crawls the site. There was about 10k of new code >added to it between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7. Since many of the web plugins depend >on this plugin to finish before they run, it will actually increase the >total scan time and provide much more accurate results in return. OK that explains it. >If speed is truly an issue (over accuracy), feel free to nop out some of >these scripts, just replace the body code with an exit(0). Speed is not an issue over accuracy for me. I just wanted to check if I was the only one getting longer scans. >If you are sick of nessus trying to connect to closed ports, this speeds >everything up immensely, at the expense of not being able to run scans on >the command-line: Thanks for the tip! >What plugins are taking the longest to finish? Are any of them timing out? I haven't looked yet and I'm off on vacation until after the first so it will be sometime in January before I can check. I was just making a general observation and didn't take time to look into many details. Thanks - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
