Can anyone remind me of the name of the open source
vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan external ports and IPs for
common vulnerabilities and compare them against a community base of reported
issues?


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Olly










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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com> wrote:














Can anyone remind me of the name of the open source
vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan external ports and IPs for
common vulnerabilities and compare them against a community base of reported
issues?


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Olly











*Perhaps you are thinking about nmap a port scanner ? *

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2010/11/23 Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall@g2support.com>:
> Can anyone remind me of the name of the open source vulnerability scanner
> that can be used to scan external ports and IPs for common vulnerabilities
> and compare them against a community base of reported issues?

http://www.openvas.org/

but, I mainly prefer nessus over it..

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