Shahid Sharif wrote:

>I ran a scan against an XP machine and nessus reported:
>
>14818 <http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=14818>   0       
>It was 
>possible to log into the remote host with the login 'X' and a blank password. 
>A 
>  
>
...

>When we used other tools to test this system, we found nothing wrong at all.
>
>  
>

Did you do the most obvious test? Try to login from the console on that
machine as username "X", blank password and Domain set to the machines
name? If that works and you can login, then it doesn't matter a pair of
fettid dingoes kidneys what these other tools say - you are 0wNed! ;-)

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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