The plugins.xml is an artifact of the Nessus 3.0 scanner for Windows. You won't find a plugins.xml file under UNIX distributions of Nessus.
NeWT was Tenable's original Windows scanner that was comparable to Nessus 2 and sold commercially. When we re-wrote Nessus and released it as Nessus 3, we renamed it to Nessus as well, and stopped charging for the commercial version of Nessus on Windows. There are still a few references to 'NeWT' on the Nessus 3 build for Windows. Most of this is in the current 3.0.x GUI. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security steven zhuang wrote: > Hi, all. > I am curious about the file plugins.xml found in my XP installation, the > file path is > C:/Program Files/Tenable/Nessus/plugins/plugins.xml, it's big, and changes > its size every time I update the plugins. > I read this file, and in it there are some information of the plguins > and their related scripts and plugins' ID. Some of the information helps me > to understand the scanning output. > and I see this file says that it is generated by NeWT, what is NeWT? > > And what is more, I installed Nessus under my debian platform, and I cannot > find such plugins.xml file under the plugins directory, I wanna if this file > is stored somewhere else. > > > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
