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This is the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) Scanner of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) Solution. It is used for the Greenbone Security Manager appliances and is a full-featured scan engine that executes a continously updated and extended feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs).
For more information, please refer to the OpenVAS website available at http://www.openvas.org/.
Please see the file COPYING for the license information.
Please refer to the instructions provided in the file INSTALL if you want to install and configure openvas-scanner. If you are not familiar or comfortable with building from source code, you may alternatively install the virtual machine image Greenbone Community Edition.
Note that you will need the gvm-libs modules to compile openvas-scanner.
If you have any question or suggestions, please feel free to join the community portal.
Please use the bug tracker located at https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner/issues to report bugs.