On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:16:50PM -0800, Stuart Kendrick wrote: > what does port scanning buy me, in terms of which NASLs get launched? Mostly, service detection. If you don't port scan, Nessus will treat port 21 as FTP, 80 as WWW, and so on. It won't detect SSL-enabled services nor services running on non-standard ports. -- Renaud