About:
Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. It is plugin-based and performs over 20,000 security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, and suggests a solution for each finding.

Author:
[contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.58/10.00 (27 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.nessus.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.nessus.org/download/
Mailing list archive:
http://list.nessus.org/
Demo site:
http://www.nessus.org/demo/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		Free To Use But Restricted, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), Other/Proprietary License with Source
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Security

Dependencies: [change]
GTK+ 1.2.10 (recommended)
OpenSSL 0.9.7a (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.2.4	23-Mar-2005	Other/Proprietary License with Source
2.x The GPL branch of the scanner.	2.2.11	14-Mar-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
3.x	3.2.0	13-Mar-2008	Free To Use But Restricted
Experimental	2.1.1	21-Jul-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] It's not open-source anymore!
by MC - Oct 6th 2005 13:33:05

Starting version 3.0 it's going to be free but not open-source!

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