Re: Vulnerability and Penetration Testing?

This seems to be useful for testing my local machine, but I can't see how to
put a remote IP or hostname into it before hitting that red button.

Am I missing something?

Ross
"Anders" <andersajja@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2jTUf.49662$d5.206309@newsb.telia.net...
> Ross M. Greenberg wrote:
>> I'm in the process of evaluating some software firewalls. I want to test
>> their effectiveness by running some remote vulnerability and penetration
>> tests on my local box. Local box running the test on is running windows
>> XP. The firewall is running on some version of Linux.
>>
>> The tester software has to be freely downloadable.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ross M. Greenberg
> You don't have to down load nessus just to scan you're
> network from the outside.
> There is one site unfortunately it is in swedish but the result is in
> english.
>
> https://www.testadatorn.se/ just click on the red button and the test will
> start (it can take a little more than 30min), just remember not to close
> you're browser during the test.
>
> It is a better test then the ShieldsUP on http://www.grc.com.
>
> /Anders
Received on Mon May 1 01:01:55 2006