What is Nessus?

Nessus is software application developed by Tenable Network Security, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 62.50% of installations running this operating system. Nessus's installer is typically 14.00 MB in size and installs around 23 files. The most common release is 4.4.1.15078 with 33.33% of all installations currently using this version.

Nessus is most popular in the United States with 54.48% of installations residing in this country.

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • nessus-service.exe runs as a service named 'Tenable Nessus' (Tenable Nessus) "Tenable Nessus Network Security Scanner".

Software Details

URL:
https://www.tenablesecurity.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\
Uninstaller:
MsiExec.exe /I{736993F9-99FC-4890-AEAE-F3D631794C65}
Size:
14.00 MB
Language:
English

Nessus Executable Details

Primary executable:
libeay32.dll
Name:
Nessus
Path:
C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\libeay32.dll
MD5:
ed6bde7fd81e2a65524b0fa5788b1d08
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Nessus
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
db1ef6a633424bf3edc10c18b357be29
EXE
aca49c66aa2955c4b9a849d034c34ef1
EXE
c6ecb23ae806b5a671e6534aad924fc6