Nessus 3 released, remains free

Nessus 3 released, remains free
Kelly Martin, 2005-12-13

Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-14
Anonymous (2 replies)

i will stick with 2... binary without source is boring...

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Re: Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-14
Anonymous

Aye, it's a bit like cutting all the pictures out of Playdude so all you got is the articles. Heh....

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Re: Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-16
Anonymous

Im not sure about everyone else, although this doesn't bother me in the slightest. Nessus will still give me the results I need to see. Wouldn't mind seeing it intergrated with a database so I can manipulate the data faster for my custom reports.

On another note, it might stop some other compan...

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Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-15
Anonymous

Try OpenVAS. It's based off the GNU Nessus 2 code, and is active:

http://www.openvas.org...

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Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-15
Anonymous (1 replies)

Having seen numerous other vulnerabillity scanners, that use Nessus and then dress up the exterior, this seems to make sense. I read an interview with Tenable that said you would still be able to write plugins. This seems like an adequate compromise for the majority of users. Most of us don't truly ...

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Re: Nessus 3 released, remains free 2005-12-20
Anonymous

Agreed. People need to stop getting so upset becuase authors close the source on the applications. Once a product reaches a commercial viability and the author continues to open the product up for free use then you should be satisfied. The fact is the majority of Linux users (myself included) rarel...

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