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# About Nikto

Nikto is an award-winning, Open Source (GPL) command-line driven web security scanner originally written by Chris Sullo in Perl, and is what actually does all the heavy lifting in MacNikto.

You do not have to install Nikto yourself as the latest version is included with the MacNikto application, installed in /usr/local/nikto.

You don't even have to use the MacNikto interface if you don't want to. In fact, there are flexible and powerful features in Nikto that are inaccessible to MacNikto and more suited to the security professional. For more information on using Nikto from the command-line, please refer to Nikto's main page and documentation.

That said, MacNikto covers the basics and should be sufficient for a general security audit.

## See also

http://www.cirt.net/nikto2
http://www.cirt.net/nikto2-docs/
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