False Positives on Plugin 10428 - SMB Fully Accessible Registry

[George Theall]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:13:57PM -0800, Peter Heard wrote:

> Suddenly I am getting what seems to be false positives using Nessus 2.2.2a
> for all my Windows systems from Plugin 10428 (SMB Fully Accessible
> Registry), where it notes that the registry is not fully accessible.
> 
> The false positives started somewhere between 11th Jan and 21st Jan. 

I don't know whether this is the cause, but one of the dependencies,
netbios_name_get.nasl, was rewritten extensively by Renaud on Jan 19th:

  http://cvsweb.nessus.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nessus-plugins/scripts/netbios_name_get.nasl.diff?r1=1.40&r2=1.41

George
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