DoS attack

[Beaver, Jason]

If you perform destructive testing, there is no guarantee that the
system you're performing the tests on will survive the attack.  They may
in fact crash if they are found vulnerable to the particular attack that
Nessus is initiating.  Using nondestructive testing will find holes, and
you can upgrade the software to prevent the attacks.  Nessus does give
false positives sometimes, but you can use it to guide your upgrade
path. 
 

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From: nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org] On Behalf Of
Anjali.Jain at mars-india.com
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 03:01
To: nessus at list.nessus.org
Subject: DoS attack



Hi All, 
Can i use Nessus to perform DoS attacks also or is it vulnerble to thia
attacks  i.e. will it be some type of problem to my system if i use it
for DoS attacks. 

Cheers 
Anjali 
 
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