In computer security, Nessus is a proprietary comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.
It is free of charge for personal use in a non-enterprise environment. Its goal is to detect potential vulnerabilities on the tested systems.
You can download nessus from official website, click here
Now you must obtain an activation code from here.
Now you must activate your code :
/opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --register xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx
Now you can start nessus' deamon :
Move into directory : /opt/nessus/sbin
sudo ./nessusd
Now we must add an user:
sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser
Now we can start nessus ! Open our browser and go to : https://localhost:8834
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