Nessus 4.2.1 New Version

I sure everyone in the IT industry had to use nessus at some point. It didn't have the greatest interface, but it did its job.

The new version they redid everything, but before it was GUI application. The only problems that I ever had where that it took long time to login to the application other than that it work pretty well. Now with 4.2.1 they changed it to be a web application. Actually it loads really quick, but before it can load you need to start the service.

maddog@DTS-Enterprise:~/Desktop$ sudo /etc/init.d/nessusd start -- This is to start the service
[sudo] password for maddog:
$Starting Nessus : .

maddog@DTS-Enterprise:~/Desktop$ sudo /etc/init.d/nessusd stop -- This is to stop the service
$Shutting down Nessus : .

When starting the nessus services it requires root privileges. By default the nessus service loads when the computer starts. To stop nessus from loading when the computer starts type this command sudo update-rc.d -f nessusd remove

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