Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner - FAQ
Generic- How does Acunetix WVS perform an automated scan and detect vulnerabilities?
- What security alerts are generated by the Acunetix WVS crawler?
- How can I backup Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
- How do I scan multiple websites with Acunetix WVS?
- Why isn't my site's technology listed in the scan wizard?
- Will a vulnerability scan damage my site, or pose a threat to my data?
- Under what circumstances will a scan require human intervention?
- How does Acunetix crawl password protected areas?
- How can I integrate Acunetix WVS with another third party application?
- If I have a web application firewall, should I still scan the website directly?
How to's
- Is it possible to have different scanner settings profiles?
- Can I configure Acunetix WVS to crawl a website in a pre-defined way?
- How can I write my own URL rewrite rule?
- What are 'Setup in session and out of session detection' used for in the Login Sequence Recorder?
- How to manually scan a website using the HTTP Sniffer to build a site structure.
- Can I manually import scan results into the Acunetix database file?
- I am worried that a specific directory or file might be risky to scan in realtime. What can I do?
Troubleshooting
- During a scan, why did Acunetix WVS display a message window stating that URL rewrite was detected?
- Why does Acunetix WVS detect pages that don't exist on my website?
- Where are Acunetix WVS log files stored?
- What can I do if I find an error or problem in Acunetix WVS?
- How can I troubleshoot AcuSensor Technology problems when scanning .NET applications?
- Why do I get many messages 'connection was terminated by host' in the error log?
- How can I prevent a scan from flooding me with Acunetix test string emails?
