OpenVAS vs Nessus, which is better?
Nessus and OpenVAS appear to have fairly similar features. Why would you choose one over the other, besides the benefit of commercial support (which isn't available for Nessus Home Feed users anyways)?
A recent test of OpenVAS vs Nessus shows the benefits in using multiple scanners due to the difference in the signatures: Nessus, OpenVAS and Nexpose VS Metasploitable (blog post by Peter at HackerTarget) Out of 15 known security holes in the system used for the test, 4 were spotted by all four tested tools (Nessus, OpenVAS, Nexpose and some Nmap scripts); 7 were only spotted by some and 4 were missed completely. Tenable responded with an article on The Right Way To Configure Nessus For Comparison