It's probably because the AP does not respond with a standard 404 message for
nonexistent files. If you can capture the HTML output from a page that does not
exist (for the file extensions that gave false positives) and send it to me (or
the list) no404.nasl can be patched to keep it from happening in the future.

Quoting Roberto Tanara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Sorry, my message ended up in the wrong thread...repost below
> 
> 
> >I installed Nessus 1.3.4 on Red Hat 8.0: performing a
> routine scan of  our web server I got a lot of cgi false positives (never
> happened before), and what puzzled me  is that Nessus report  the host as a
> Wireless Access Point...
> I rolled back to version 1.2.7 but the results are exactly the same, am I
> missing something? (or the whole of it maybe...)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Rob
> 
> 


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