Hi,

On 18.07.2017 21:16, Matt Koivisto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running openvas-9 on centos 7, all the feeds up to date. I have
> seen some windows 7 hosts with SP1 installed and fully patched that are
> being detected as windows 8 machines and thus get flagged as “OS End of
> Life Detection” (http://plugins.openvas.org/nasl.php?oid=103674).
> 
> Specifically, for verified windows 7 machines I get the false positive:
> 
>> The "Windows 8" Operating System on the remote host has reached the
> end of life.
> 
>> CPE: cpe:/o:microsoft:windows_8
> 
>> Installed version:
> 
>> EOL date: 2016-01-12
> 
>> EOL info:
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search?sort=PN&alpha=Windows%208&Filter=FilterNO
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this on their network as well? Any suggestions?
> 
> I tried to trace through a bit to verify what’s coming back from the
> remote registry using openvas-nasl directly, but without any success.

thanks for your report. Could you post the output of the following NVT:

OS Detection Consolidation and Reporting (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105937)

This might give more info where the Windows 8 detection is coming from.

Regards,

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