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authorobraun <obraun@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-01 05:39:56 +0800
committerobraun <obraun@FreeBSD.org>2003-02-01 05:39:56 +0800
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Update the outdated pkg-descr as requested by the nessus developer.
PR: ports/47708 Submitted by: maintainer
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
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diff --git a/security/nessus/pkg-descr b/security/nessus/pkg-descr
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-The 'Nessus' Project was started in early 1998, and first released in
-April 1998. At this time, the most complete free security scanner was
-SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of
-several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.
+Nessus is a security scanner that crawls across a network, looking
+for well-known vulnerabilities and common misconfiguration.
-The Nessus Security Scanner is not only another security auditing tool. It
-is a security auditing as I think it should be - never trust the version
-number, never trust that a given service is listenning on the good port
-(do all the web servers on earth listen on port 80 ?).
+It has a unique set of features, including automatic SSL discovery,
+services recognition (so it will catch, for instance, a FTP server
+running on a port different than 21) and its own scripting language.
-The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to
-use.
+The Nessus Security Scanner is released under the GNU General Public
+Licence and aims to be easy to use while extremely powerful.
WWW: http://www.nessus.org/