Windows patch checking Plugins are showing false positives with latest plugin updates

Renaud Deraison deraison at nessus.org
Fri Aug 27 11:40:00 EDT 2004


On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:57:07PM -0700, Peter HEARD wrote:
> All of my scanners are now showing in excess of 32 false positives when
> checking for missing WIndows patches. I rolled back the plugins to those
> downloaded on August 19th and everything is fine, but the plugins downloaded
> since Monday night at 3:00am PDT are creating all these false positives.

Sorry about this - the file smb_hotfixes.inc had a subtle bug that
Nicolas Pouvesle corrected. If you've updated your plugins since this
morning, the problem went away.


				-- Renaud



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