Index: head/security/nessus/pkg-descr =================================================================== --- head/security/nessus/pkg-descr (revision 74383) +++ head/security/nessus/pkg-descr (revision 74384) @@ -1,16 +1,13 @@ -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 At this time, the most complete free security scanner was -SATAN, which is clearly outdated, and you could see the emergence of -several commercial ones, that were clearly too expensive.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/ PS: To install the lot in one operation, do nessus-plugins first. Property changes on: head/security/nessus/pkg-descr ___________________________________________________________________ Modified: cvs2svn:cvs-rev ## -1 +1 ## -1.2 \ No newline at end of property +1.3 \ No newline at end of property