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Vulnerability Assessment Details

SYN Scan

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Performs a TCP SYN scan

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

This tests performs a supposedly fast SYN port scan
It does so by computing the RTT (round trip time) of the packets
coming back and forth between the nessusd host and the target,
then it uses that to quicky send SYN packets to the remote host

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Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: Copyright (C) Renaud Deraison

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