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by phillc 4885 days ago
Single location to aggregate a list of all vulnerable apps.
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See my response here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5153615

You are more than welcome to use Metasploit - a lot of our customers didn't want to go through the trouble of setting up their own Metasploit config, etc., so we built this to give them a simple quick check.

Why bother with something this elaborate? I ran a Metasploit scan on the /24 network that my Linode is located in and turned up 4 vulnerable servers in a matter of minutes. If someone were hunting for vulnerable hosts, this form would be a really inefficient way of finding them when you consider how easy this is to discover using simple network scans.