XP Registry Scans

[Renaud Deraison]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:02:29PM -0500, Mike Gadoury wrote:
> The problem is that when I do the same on an XP Prof system,  nessus 
> cannot read the registry. I'm sure it is a permission thing but I just 
> can't seem to nail it down.

Make sure that in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa, ForceGuest
is set to 0 (and reboot if it was set to 1).

See also :

	http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290403



				-- Renaud