Re: something about the plugins.xml.

The plugins.xml is an artifact of the Nessus 3.0 scanner for Windows.
You won't find a plugins.xml file under UNIX distributions of Nessus.

NeWT was Tenable's original Windows scanner that was comparable to
Nessus 2 and sold commercially. When we re-wrote Nessus and released it
as Nessus 3, we renamed it to Nessus as well, and stopped charging for
the commercial version of Nessus on Windows. There are still a few
references to 'NeWT' on the Nessus 3 build for Windows. Most of this is
in the current 3.0.x GUI.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

steven zhuang wrote:
> Hi, all.
>  I am curious about the file plugins.xml found in my XP installation, the 
> file path is 
> C:/Program Files/Tenable/Nessus/plugins/plugins.xml, it's big, and changes 
> its size every time I update the plugins. 
>  I  read  this file,  and in it there are some  information of the plguins 
> and their related scripts and plugins' ID. Some of the information helps me 
> to understand the scanning output.
>  and I see this file says that it is generated by NeWT, what is NeWT?
>  
> And what is more, I installed Nessus under my debian platform, and I cannot 
> find such plugins.xml file under the plugins directory, I wanna if this file 
> is stored somewhere else. 
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