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Re: Nessus taking a long time to scan

Subject: Re: Nessus taking a long time to scan
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:02:35 -0400

On Sep 23, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Kelly, Jim wrote:

I just want to get everyone's feedback:
Nessus is currently up to 9333+ plugins

Even with all the irrelevant plugins unchecked...like slackware, freebsd, solaris checks etc.

You don't need to do that. If the remote host is not solaris and/or ssh is not running and/or you did not give ssh key/password, Nessus will not launched those plugins (same for other local chekcs).


Network only has windows 2003
total of 60 hosts
It's taking me 5-7 hours.
I'm using three laptops
 one C800 Dell
 one D600 Dell
 one Compaq Presario R3000.

Is this typical for you all?

No.

Is there a firewall between your Nessus scanner and your hosts ?
What portscanners did you select in the Nessus configuration ? and what ports do you scan ?
Is safe checks option enabled ? (unsafe plugin are slow)



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