Mailing List Archive: nessus scan errors

On Sep 18, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:

> I think I've asked this before, and I turned safe checks off, but am
> still seeing the same message:
> *** The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or
> hosts
> have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security
> audit to be complete
> I'd like my security audit to be complete--how do I enable these
> plugins?

If you're indeed willing to enable plugins that intentionally try to
be destructive (for example, crashing a service or causing a kernel
panic on a target), then disable safe checks, either by setting
'safe_checks' to "no" in the client config or unchecking "Safe checks"
in the client.

George
--
theall@tenablesecurity.com

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