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Re: Nessus TCP Scanner Plugin (id# 10335) for Windows

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Subject: Re: Nessus TCP Scanner Plugin (id# 10335) for Windows
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:02:03 -0500
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On 03/08/07 06:41, Keith Pounder wrote:

Can you please help with an issue I have come across with Nessus 3.0.5 for Windows which I recently downloaded. When trying to configure a policy I found that the Nessus TCP scanner plugin (id# 10335) was not listed under the Port Scanner family.

Unfortunately, Nessus for Windows can't perform TCP connect scans (which is what 10335 does) due to limitations of the Windows TCP/IP stack. Consider using instead #11219, which does SYN scans.

George
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