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What is a Plugin?
Every audit in Nessus is coded as a plugin: a simple program which checks for a given flaw. There are currently 23542 different plugins used by Nessus, covering local and remote flaws.
Staying Up-To-Date
New vulnerabilities are discovered and published every day. As a result, staying up-to-date is a must if you want to perform a security scan.
Every week, several dozens of plugins are added in the nessus plugin feed.
To make sure your plugins are up-to-date, make sure that your scanner has been registered properly on Nessus.org. Once your scanner is registered, it will fetch the newest plugins automatically every 24 hours, or you can use the command nessus-update-plugins to force an update of your plugins.
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