Re: Architecture of NESSUS

[Li Yinchao <xcodesadmin () gmail com>]

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2005/11/9, Aaron Phillips <aaronwphillips () gmail com>:
> On Saturday 05 November 2005 07:12 am, koreshicsi () inbox ru wrote:
> > Good time of you...
> > We is group of boffins, who want to do more simple scanner then NESSUS.
> > Now there isn't leader of scanners, we want to try to do it. Help us.
> >
> > we need to know the details about NESSUS vulnerability scanner.
> > Like.
> > 1. The ARCHITECTURE of nessus(nessus client and daemon).
> > 2. How nessus is using different O/S tools like, NMAP, HYDRA..
> > 3. Which module is responsible for what? means which module of nessus is
> > interacting with NMAP, which is for HYDRA and HOW?
> > 4. Which module is responsible for customization to scan.
> > 5. How to write plug in for nessus and also enable and disable the
> > plug-in(not by using UI)
> > 6. How to customize the report generation of nessus.
> > 7. How can one integrate nessus with IDS to correlate the report and
> > alert to reduce false alert .
> > 8. How each and every module is interacting with each-other.
>
> I'd try http://cvsweb.nessus.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ and just start
> browsing...