This section consists of information about reference IDs assigned to the vulnerability sent to the plugin by various known bodies, such as NVD and Secunia. These references include EDB-ID, BID, Secunia, and CVE-ID.

Each plugin, plugin family, or even all plugins, can be enabled and disabled as per the user's requirements, thus allowing the user to reduce the scan time and use only the necessary plugins to perform a scan. The following screenshot shows a single plugin disabled:

The following screenshot shows a whole plugin family disabled:

The following screenshot shows all the plugins disabled, using the Disable All button at the top right of the screen:

The very important components of the plugins needed to perform the compliance scan are the policy compliance plugins. These plugins will be used along with the audit file provided to identify the operating system-level, service-level, and configuration-level vulnerabilities. For example, if you want to perform a compliance scan for Windows, you can disable all the remaining plugins and enable only Windows Compliance Checks, as follows: