Nessus : A security vulnerability scanning tool for Various flavours


What is Nessus?
Nessus is a remote security scanning tool, which scans a computer and raises an alert if it discovers any vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could use to gain access to any computer you have connected to a network.  It does this by running over 1200 checks on a given computer, testing to see if any of these attacks could be used to break into the computer or otherwise harm it.


To know more about the Nessus visit the following website :



Instructions to install Nessus in Ubuntu 10.10



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