Nmap/Nessus question

[Steve Fletcher]

I have been trying to perform a scan with nmap, and then feed the greppable
results into nessus to help with filtering out certain hosts.  When I tried
this recently, I excluded my host from the nmap scan, but when I did the
nessus scan, my host was listed.  Does anyone have any recommendations on
how to accomplish this? I know I can filter my host out of the NBE file
before generating my reports, but I was hoping to avoid that step.

Also, I would really like to have the nmap log in addition to the nessus
results, so I don't want to rely on nmap.nasl.  I have purchased the recent
nessus book from Syngress, but there is no mention of this in it anywhere.

When I ran the nessus scan, I chose "Enable all but dangerous plugins".  Is
that the source of my problem?  Do I just need to exclude nmap.nasl from the
list?  Or, should I break up the target selection to not include my IP
address?  Maybe I just answered my own question.  :)

In case it helps, I am running nessus 2.2.0 and nmap 3.75 on MandrakeLinux
10.0 Official.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Fletcher
MCSE (NT4/Win2k), MCSE: Security (Win2k), HP Master ASE, CCNA, Security+,
safletcher at insightbb.com