On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Whit Blauvelt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 02:02:22PM -0500, William Scott Lockwood III wrote: > >> I installed BackTrack. Problem solved. > > You know. I tried that first. But BackTrack has totally broken instructions > for persistent USB install - both versions of the instructions for that > produce BackTrack versions that don't work. So then I installed it to a VM. > And it seemed to run, but it's not up to date on OpenVAS. And running the > version it has, well, it seemed to run, but it produced reports showing that > it had completed a scan on a large block of IPs in one second, and found no > vulnerabilities - on a block where I know there are vulnerabilities. > > Also, the BackTrack wiki is full of bad documentation - not just on the USB > install, but on running its OpenVAS version. And the wiki's locked down so > it can't be corrected - violating the whole purpose of a wiki. The BackTrack > forums don't even accept posts until they're moderated. It's a lame project > I've already wasted hours on. No thanks. > > Whit
I agree, they could use some work, and you do have to know what you're doing, but I tried to get OpenVAS working in Ubuntu for a month. It only took me a week with BackTrack. -- Regards, W. Scott Lockwood _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
