RE: Nessus :: Port scanners - tcp connect() & SYN scan MISSING

["Asterisks *" <asterisks1@hotmail.com>]

Hi Michel,
You could be right. Is it necessary to activate all the port scanners? If 1 
port scanner can do the job then why do we need so many in the family? 
pardon my ignorance.
thanks for your advice


> From: Michel Arboi <mikhail@nessus.org>
> To: Asterisks * <asterisks1@hotmail.com>
> CC: nessus@list.nessus.org
> Subject: RE: Nessus :: Port scanners - tcp connect() & SYN scan MISSING
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:14:46 +0200
>
> Le jeudi 10 mai 2007 à 10:54 +0000, Asterisks * a écrit :
> > I'm curious, previously when these 2 port scanners were not inlcuded in 
> the
> > port scanner family, I still managed to scan and the results showed 
> ports
> > that were opened.
>
> I guess that you got only the "standard" ports... and a very incomplete
> report.
> Or maybe your targets answered to SNMP?
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