On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:05:51PM -0500, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> I upgraded Nessus from 2.0.7 to 2.0.9 on Friday and also got the latest
> plugins. Afterward I discovered that the number of MS03-043 detections using
> the messenger plugin were now a third of their previous quantity. I
> unfortunately don't know what version of the messenger plugin I was using
> before. Was something done in the history of either the plugin or Nessus
> that would vastly reduce the number of false (or real) positives for this
> plugin?
Yes - the plugin used to flag every Win9x box as being vulnerable,
whereas they are not.
-- Renaud
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