Hi Qingwei, Ya, you could do that.. But that has a serious risk of crashing your target machine.. To prevent that, you can use the option "Enable all but dangerous plugins" on the plugins tab of the Unix client gui, because I think a DoS atack falls under the "dangerous" category..
Use the DoS plugin at your own risk.. Can possibley crash the host The other, non-dangerous plugins wont crash your target machines in most cases.. ;) Regards, Ashutosh --- Qing-Wei Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ashutosh, > > Thanks your quick response. > > I also have the concern that if nessusd service run > on the target machine, > can some security vulnerability test be done?? For > instance, DoS attack?? > > BR, > Qingwei > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ashutosh Naik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:27 PM > To: Yang, Qing-Wei [SUNP:RND1:EXCH] > Subject: Re: I need help!!What is different between > the results scanned by > the machine (nessusd service run on itself) and > those scanned by other machi > ne (simulating attack through network traffic)?? > > > > Hi QingWei > > What I make of your question is, > > In the first scenario : nessusd and nessus running > on > the same machine or diferent machines and the target > machine is 127.0.0.1( The server machine) > > In the second scenario: nessusd and nessus running > on > the same or diferent machines and the target machine > is X > > The results should be the same > > Regards > Ashutosh > --- Qing-Wei Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > What is the different between the results > scanned > > by the machine (nessusd > > > service run on itself) and those scanned by > other > > machine (simulating > > > attack through network traffic)?? > > > > > > In other words, > > > I have two testing model, > > > One is that installing the nessus package on the > > target machine and > > > scanning itself. > > > The other one is that installing the nessus > > package on other machine and > > > scanning the target one. > > > > > > What is the different between them?? > > > The results will be same or not?? > > > > > > > > > Thanks your answers! > > > > > > BR, > > > Qingwei > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nessus mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the > best policies, services, > tools and more. > Go to: > http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html > ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Insurance Special: Be informed on the best policies, services, tools and more. Go to: http://in.insurance.yahoo.com/licspecial/index.html _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
