On the market exist lot of good scanners and all of them are excellent, but unfortunatelymost of available scanners are paid and this relevant fact hinder some students of understanding how to analyze and invade remote machines . Nonetheless, a good free scanner exists and using it allow you find out any possible flaws : OpenVAS. In fact, OpenVAS is so good like Nessus, Retina or any other famous scanner, and learn it is an easy mission.
Whereas there're some details about OpenVAS configuration,it follows a quick start procedure to configure OpenVAS and use it a.s.a.p. on Kali Linux.
root@hacker:~#openvas-mkcert -f
root@hacker:~#openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i
(The next command is going to require you enter a New password)
root@hacker:~#openvasad -c 'add_user'-n admin_linuxmagazine -r Admin
(These next two steps could take a long time)
root@hacker:~#openvas-nvt-sync
root@hacker:~#openvassd
(Onward)
root@hacker:~#openvasmd
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rebuild
root@hacker:~#openvasmd -p 9390 -a 127.0.0.1
root@hacker:~#openvasad -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9393
root@hacker:~#gsad --http -only --listen=127.0.0.1 -p 5555
root@hacker:~# /etc/init.d/openvas -administrator restart
Restarting OpenVAS Administrator: openvasad.
root@hacker:~#/etc/init.d/openvas-manager restart
Restarting OpenVAS Manager: openvasmd.
Now, you must open a browser and go to:
http://localhost:5555
If everything installed you will get TOOL UI and you can use it as your VA/PT tool.
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