Re: Nessus Client 3.0 usability

> Actually, if a family is fully enabled, then the new plugins in that  
> family are enabled by default. Otherwise, if you start to disable some  
> plugins in given families, or if the family is disabled, then new  
> plugins in this family will indeed be disabled.

If I scan a Windows machine with admin credentials and all Windows plugins
enabled, I get hundreds if not thousands of lines of information not
indicating vulnerabilities.  So I really want to turn off selected plugins.
Working in this mode, there's nothing in the interface to distinguish between
new plugins and old plugins that I have deliberately disabled.

> > Why does the report list IP addresses in the left pane when I scan by
> > machine name?
>
> I need to check this. That's probably because a reverse lookup on the  
> IP does not work, but I'll get back to you on this one.

All of the machines I am scanning have static IP addresses.  Forward and
reverse nameserver lookups both work.

I should add that the report interface in the new client is a vast
improvement over dumping everything into an Internet Explorer window.
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