Tenable has added an interesting feature to Nessus that seems quite simple and one I suspect will be beneficial to many organisations.Īs the Nessus scanner performs a credential based scan of a system it can collect hashes of all the running processes and compare these to an online database that is effectively a clone of a system such as VirusTotal. The security industry is creating all manner of network based anomaly detection products to discover unknown malware. In fact slight modifications to malware can make them virtually undetectable to many AV scanners until signatures become available for that particular variant. Malware has been a problem since the days of the first boot loader virus's, however in todays world of information syphoning botnets the threats are wide spread and potentially devasting to an organisation.Īnti-virus is generally a requirement on all your Windows based desktops but it is far from fool proof. Enter the feed key, the plugins are downloaded, and the scanner is initialised.Ī new interesting feature of Nessus 5 is the known malware detection feature. Registering for a feed is required here whether that is for Home use or Professional use. Heading to the URL listed in the output of the install script, starts the web based install wizard. You can start nessusd by typing /etc/init.d/nessusd start (C) 1998 - 2012 Tenable Network Security, Inc. 193891 files and directories currently installed.) Selecting previously unselected package nessus. sudo dpkg -i Downloads/Nessus-5.0.1-ubuntu1110_b Install takes less than a minute and is fast and easy as can seen below.

The download of the Nessus 5 package (.deb) for Ubuntu is around 25mb which contrasts significantly to the recently tested Nexpose Community Edition that weighs in at 200mb+ download for the 64 bit binary.

This would require a professional feed license (now $1500 USD per year). Take note I am having a quick look at the product, not using it in a commercial manner as part of the work done by. Having yet to play with Nessus 5, today I grabbed a copy and installed it into my Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit system.

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