On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 15:24:09 -0600 "[SiN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3.0.6 On Unix or Windows? > ive tried a few different methods and port scanners. Supposing you have the Unix version, the results might be more reliable if you upgrade, because of misc improvements in the TCP port scanner See http://ma75.blogspot.com/2008/03/nessus-32-is-out.html The SNMP "pseudo scanner" may show open ports which are in fact filtered, as it directly asks the remote machine and cannot guess if there is a firewall on the way. It may also be confused by buggy SNMP agents (mainly NT4 and Win2000). The newest versions include a new preference ("Probe open ports") that will get rid of these false alerts. You do not give much details about your configuration, your bandwidth, the bandwidth of the targets, ping time, etc., so I'm aonly guessing. In difficult configurations, scanners cannot do miracle, i.e. be quick _and_ reliable. If you bandwidth is limited, you have to reduce max_hosts and max_checks. BTW, are some of the targets infected by worms? Malware can ruin a bandwidth when they try to propagate. -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~arboi http://ma75.blogspot.com/ PGP key ID : 0x0BBABA91 - 0x1320924F0BBABA91 Fingerprint: 1048 B09B EEAF 20AA F645 2E1A 1320 924F 0BBA BA91 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
