Re: Nessus, Harmful?

[John Jasen <jjasen () realityfailure org>]

Zaki Akhmad wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to do a nessus scanning, but before I'd like to know is it
> nessus scanning harmful? Because I don't want to make the server down.

While a full nessus scan may crash services or your system, you may want
to consider that if you can do it legitimately, there's a chance the bad
guys can do it as well.

Of course, make sure you have all the appropriate permissions before
scanning.

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