Are you using NessusWX? If so just disable the "Safe" scans, as I believe this is essentially setting it to thorough.
Then again, it's late and sleep hasn't arrived at my door for days! JS > Hello, > > I am trying to scan a web site with Nessus. Nessus server and client are > both installed on my computer. The web server is on the local network. > > I am using Nessus 3.0.4 on Win XP. I can configure it scan the server, > but I don't think that it does what is expected. The web site has a few > thousand pages, but scan takes only 20-30 minutes (I disable port scans, > except port 80). I select all plugins, except the DoS group. The > webmiror plugin is selected too, but I don't think that it does > anything. > > I see this in scan information: > > Nessus version : 3.0.4 > Plugin feed version : 200701161815 > Type of plugin feed : Registered (7 days delay) > Scanner IP : <removed> > Port scanner(s) : synscan > Port range : 80 > Thorough tests : no > Experimental tests : no > Paranoia level : 1 > Report Verbosity : 1 > Safe checks : yes > Max hosts : 20 > Max checks : 4 > Scan Start Date : 2007/1/18 12:20 > Scan duration : 1676 sec > > The question is, how do I enable thorough tests? I want as tough scan as > possible, even if it takes a couple days to do. > > The other question is, how to get the webmirror plugin working? I do > increase the number of cached pages to the max (99999). > > I found a couple of books describing Nessus, but they talk about Nessus > 2. The new Nessus 3 interface is intuitive, but not well documented. > > Thanks, > > Arkadi > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
