OpenVAS was forked from Nessus a couple of years ago. It seems that OpenVAS take too much time to load all plugins. Joerg suggested to use nessus because of its neat web interface, the speed, and the ability to produce nice overviews. The first step is to download the RPM package. Install it and grab an activation code.Now start the daemon.
I have tried installing using the other guides, but they either recommend using apt-get (I tried, that doesn't work at all, it can not locate the packages) or using the regular download and just installing it that way. I have tried using the official download, but although the installation using qapt completes successfully, I am unable to launch it or anything else. Basically I want a guide on how to install it, that includes what repos to add, what to install, and how to configure it. Please help me with this, someone recently broke into a couple computers on my home network and I need to find the fix ASAP before they do a (literal) drive by attack again.
A couple of pieces of advice. Don't use RH 9, it is out of date. Fedora Core 3 or 4 are free and pretty reliable apps. You easiest install would be the workstation, that way you have all of the programs associated with installing and comiling software without having to hunt it down. To install nessus your best bet will be to follow the instructions off of their site. I have yet to be successful with their rpms.
![Fedora Fedora](/uploads/1/2/5/5/125513364/714671021.png)
![Nessus Nessus](http://www.computersecuritystudent.com/Black_belt.gif)
I would also use the binaries from the download site: then you compile and install as directed here after you get it up and running you will need to set up a client, for windows pick the one that you want to use and install NessusWX from the download page and you should be ready to go. Let me know if you need more.