On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:40:27PM +0000, Jack Solomon wrote:
>
> I ran a scan of a win2k server and nessus said to apply a MS critical patch:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-039.asp
>
> When I looked on the web, the patch is for win2k (NOT server). As its not
> for win2k server, the windows update routine doesnt apply it. Is this a
> false positive in nessus, or a MS bug?
this is both Windows 2000 AND Windows 2000 Server, otherwise Microsoft
would have clearly mentionned it in the "Non-Affected Software" section
of the bulletin.
> Has anyone out there had problems with Nessus false positives before?
False positives sometimes happen and we encourage users to report them
back to us as often as possible. However in your case I doubt it's a
false positive.
-- Renaud
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