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Re: How to tell what's new

To: rbabcock@cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: How to tell what's new
From: Ron Gula <rgula@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 05:51:17 -0400
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Bob Babcock wrote:
> I use Nessus for Windows.  I turn off some of the plugins in some families
> so I see mostly vulnerabilities in my reports.  But once you start selecting
> individual plugins rather than families, plugin updates become a problem.
> You don't know what's new, so you have to review the plugin lists.  Is there
> a way to tell what's changed or new?  All the plugins get the current date
> when I update.  I suppose I could make a copy of the plugin directory and use
> a differencing program, but it seems there should be a better way.

Hi Bob,

Have you considered the RSS plugin feed?

http://www.nessus.org/rss-plugins.xml

This is updated as soon as Tenable releases a new plugin.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security
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