[Nagiosplug-help] Nagios plugin used to scan my site

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:34 PM, Alex Bond wrote:

> Sorry, this was called Nagiosplug-help, so I thought that this would  
> be
> a list to contact the developers.  I don't really know what Nagios
> plugins do, so I thought that people might like to know how this
> software was being used for malicious purposes.  I also hoped that I
> could get some advice for defending against it.  Thanks for that.

Just FYI, the nagios-plugins are part of the Nagios Network Monitoring  
application (http://www.nagios.org). They're simple status checkers.  
For example, check_http just checks to see if a specified web page is  
up or down in much the same way that ping checks whether a host is up  
or down.

--
Marc