[Openvas-discuss] Are there other Nessus forks than OpenVAS?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 17:53, Dan Bowman wrote:
> There were a few that I used to monitor (still on their email lists if they
> ever start back up) but none are active anymore (or they deleted my email
> address for what ever reason).

All I found had empty archives of mailing lists. Why should subscribers
be removed silently? I guess you could easily check whether you are still
subscribed.

> There were some interesting ports, all by 
> commercial companies or consulting companies; a port to Java which as you
> would expect, isn't fast and port to Windows that runs once, usually
> completes the scan and writes the data to a file but crashes when complete.

Thats interesting. I haven't found these. Could you provide some pointers?

> Was Porz-Wahn the German/Polish fork?  I thought that had showed some
> promise before petering out?

Not really. Basically dead from the beginning.

Best

	Jan
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