However, while doing some housekeeping work on nessus.org, I saw that some persons set their cronjobs to fetch the new plugins _every five minutes_, thus generating a lot of traffic on nessus.org, whereas it's not necessary. [snip] If you use a cronjob, you can safely set it to fetch the new plugins every two hours, that should be more than sufficient. [snip] Abusers have been blacklisted,
Aside from this just being rude and unnecessary, was there ever a firm conclusion to the question to the repercussions of an update while in the middle of a scan? Personally I make sure never to update while a scan is in process.
Don Whiteside, Managing Partner Terminus Security LLC 703-421-9996 http://www.terminus-security.com
