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Nessus TCP scanner

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Look for open TCP ports & services banners

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
This test is a classical TCP port scanner
It shall be reasonably quick even against a firewalled target.

Once a TCP connection is open, it grabs any available banner
for the service identification tests

Note that TCP scanners are more intrusive than
SYN (half open) scanners

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: (C) 2004 Michel Arboi

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