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diff --git a/security/nessus-devel/pkg-descr b/security/nessus-devel/pkg-descr index 63fb5543ecf9..50ac65a809d9 100644 --- a/security/nessus-devel/pkg-descr +++ b/security/nessus-devel/pkg-descr @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ -Nessus is a security scanner. That is, it's a program which will scan a -given network and will seek for vulnerabilities which could be exploited -by some remote intruder. - -The Nessus Project was originally started by Renaud Deraison -(deraison@worldnet.fr). Many people contributed in many ways to the -project, and the Nessus core team is now made up of Alexis de Bernis -(alexisb@mygale.org), who is the Java specialist, Noam Rathaus -(dolittle@isrealmail.com) who is in charge of the Nessus client for -Windows, and Renaud Deraison who is still here and who is the project -leader. - -Check the homepage at: http://www.nessus.org/ +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 At this time, the most complete free security scanner was +SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of +several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive. + +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 ?). + +The Nessus Security Scanner is free, open-sourced and wants to be easy to +use. + +WWW: http://www.nessus.org/ + +PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins first. |