Nessus 3.0.6.1 for Windows released

Nessus is the world’s most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world’s largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critical enterprise devices and applications.

(From Nessus.org)

This version fixes a security problem which exists on every version of Nessus 3.0.x for Windows with regards to the NessusGUI.exe interface which registers an ActiveX which contains a security vulnerability.

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