[mishan48]

how would IT work now?

[Pipioli12]

Let's bring back to good old Nessus Pro installation guide here! Some of you already know what I'm talking about but for others, let's go.

First of all, you need to download the official release of Nessus from Tenable website. I didn't try installing 10.x.x versions with this installation technique but as far as I know, it's the same and working but, for the sake of this guide, I'm also gonna share the 8.15.x version of Nessus.

We can no longer download the 8.x.x version from Tenable website, I couldn't find it but I'm uploading the official one, no crack or anything, it's just an official installer, downloaded on 15.05.2023 by myself. For Linux installations, I don't have a 8.x.x deb file so you have to download 10.x.x from Tenable.

Download 10.x.x from here  (Official Website)
OR
Download 8.15.9 (x64) from here (Recommended) [UPDATED 2024 MARCH]: 


For Windows:

1- Install Nessus (with the above instructions) and Download Plugin set. 2- Stop Nessus Service - ( net stop "Tenable Nessus" ) 3- Open CMD as "administrator". 4- Change Files Attribute ( attrib -s -r -h "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\*.*" ) 5- Change Files Attribute ( attrib -s -r -h "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugin_feed_info.inc" ) 6- Update Plugins ( "C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\nessuscli.exe" update "C:\DIRECTORY OF THIS FILE\all-2.0.tar.gz" ) 7- Create File plugin_feed_info.inc in C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\ and put this inside : PLUGIN_SET = "202402121405"; PLUGIN_FEED = "ProfessionalFeed (Direct)"; PLUGIN_FEED_TRANSPORT = "Tenable Network Security Lightning"; 8- Copy File To Folder ( copy "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\plugin_feed_info.inc" "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\" ) 9- Change Files Attribute ( attrib +s +r +h "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\*.*" ) 10- Change Files Attribute ( attrib +s +r +h "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugin_feed_info.inc" ) 11- Change Files Attribute ( attrib -s -r -h "C:\ProgramData\Tenable\Nessus\nessus\plugins\plugin_feed_info.inc" ) 12- Start Nessus Service - ( net start "Tenable Nessus" )

For Linux:

1-  After installation (guide above) stop nessus service > "sudo systemctl stop nessusd.service" 2-  sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessuscli update all-2.0.tar.gz 3-  Create a file named "plugin_feed_info.inc" in "/opt/nessus/var/nessus/" and put this inside: PLUGIN_SET = "202402121405"; PLUGIN_FEED = "ProfessionalFeed (Direct)"; PLUGIN_FEED_TRANSPORT = "Tenable Network Security Lightning"; 4-   sudo cp /opt/nessus/var/nessus/plugin_feed_info.inc /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/plugin_feed_info.inc 5-   sudo cp /opt/nessus/var/nessus/plugin_feed_info.inc /opt/nessus/var/nessus/.plugin_feed_info.inc 6-   sudo chattr +i /opt/nessus/var/nessus/plugin_feed_info.inc /opt/nessus/var/nessus/.plugin_feed_info.inc 7-   sudo chattr +i -R /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins 8-   sudo chattr -i /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/plugin_feed_info.inc 9-   sudo chattr -i /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins 10-  start the service > "sudo systemctl start nessusd.service"

Enjoy!
If I made any mistake, let me know and I'm gonna fix it.

Edit: *For broken download link.

03.2024 Edit:
I would like to thank everyone who tagged me and let me know that I needed to renew the links. I've been very busy for a while and even though I knew the links were no longer working, I couldn't spare the time to update them.

And now, updating all the links and also updating the plugin set to the newest! 02.20.2024 Nessus plugin set, please enjoy.

BTW so many people visited this post and how come nobody gave me a single rep.

Thank you bro for updating. Hope it still work

[fckuholy]

Tried with 10.7.1 installer and nessus-updates-10.7.1.tar.gz, not working at all (Nessus has no plugins. Therefore, functionality is limited.), gonna try some older versions, but thats kinda sad

[EBXx00]

lets try this i need

[sm0k398]

thanks good share

[qxavier3579]

I really need to see this.

[DoomGuy]

Quite interesting

[tld]

Tried with 10.7.1 installer and nessus-updates-10.7.1.tar.gz, not working at all (Nessus has no plugins. Therefore, functionality is limited.), gonna try some older versions, but thats kinda sad

I don't know why did you do that but if you do this with the resources I shared, you will be fine. I didn't share those, use what I provide in the post.

[rambler]

excelewnt!!! i like it!!! thank you

[rupeshp]

Thank you very much

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This is really good source. Cheers..