> Dear Wilfried, > > Would it be possible to replace Nessus with OpenVAS? > OpenVAS is an Open-Source Fork of the latest free Nessus-Sources. > > Nessus gets closed source soon and OpenVAS will use the latest free Src to pr > ovide an OpenSource Security-Scanner (like Nessus was). > They already include a lot things "Nessus" misses.
Indeed, the situation has become bad, but it's not really as is. The version in-tree will stay free, using only free parts. > The code can be found here: > http://www.openvas.org/doku.php?id=code > > The name "Gnessus" is obsulate because "Gnessus" and "Portz-Wahn" (2 OpenSour > ce Forks of Nessus) merged (OpenVAS). It's a good idea, and it's planned. But it would be better to wait a few weeks to be sure that this project is not going to fuckup itself, and to have a stable alternative to go toward.
