MS03-039 Plugin and WinXP SP2

Tue Aug 10 05:59:57 EDT 2004

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:53:28PM -0700, Jefferson Cowart wrote:
> It appears that some change MS has made in SP2 for Windows XP has caused the
> nessus plugin for MS03-039, 11835, to return lots of false positives. Every
> single SP2 machine I have scanned has turned up as vulnerable to this hole.
> (Note I had to turn off the firewall on the SP2 box to get any results.) Is
> anyone else seeing this?

This is a known issue. We'll fix it soon.