Nessus v2.0.10a is a free, up-to-date, and full featured remote vulnerability scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris and other systems. It is multithreaded, plugin-based, has a nice GTK interface, and currently performs over a thousand remote security checks. It has powerful reporting capabilities (HTML, LaTeX, ASCII text) and not only points out problems, but suggests a solution for each of them. Windows version available This is the automated *nix installer.
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