Are you using NessusWX? If so just disable the "Safe" scans, as I believe
this is essentially setting it to thorough.
Then again, it's late and sleep hasn't arrived at my door for days!
JS
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to scan a web site with Nessus. Nessus server and client are
> both installed on my computer. The web server is on the local network.
>
> I am using Nessus 3.0.4 on Win XP. I can configure it scan the server,
> but I don't think that it does what is expected. The web site has a few
> thousand pages, but scan takes only 20-30 minutes (I disable port scans,
> except port 80). I select all plugins, except the DoS group. The
> webmiror plugin is selected too, but I don't think that it does
> anything.
>
> I see this in scan information:
>
> Nessus version : 3.0.4
> Plugin feed version : 200701161815
> Type of plugin feed : Registered (7 days delay)
> Scanner IP : <removed>
> Port scanner(s) : synscan
> Port range : 80
> Thorough tests : no
> Experimental tests : no
> Paranoia level : 1
> Report Verbosity : 1
> Safe checks : yes
> Max hosts : 20
> Max checks : 4
> Scan Start Date : 2007/1/18 12:20
> Scan duration : 1676 sec
>
> The question is, how do I enable thorough tests? I want as tough scan as
> possible, even if it takes a couple days to do.
>
> The other question is, how to get the webmirror plugin working? I do
> increase the number of cached pages to the max (99999).
>
> I found a couple of books describing Nessus, but they talk about Nessus
> 2. The new Nessus 3 interface is intuitive, but not well documented.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arkadi
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