Thanks for the answer, but the web server does respond with a standard 404 message for nonexistent files. I tried again (after a kernel upgrade) and now 1.2.7 works, I'll investigate further what goes wrong with 1.3.4.
Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roberto Tanara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Strange false positives > 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 > > > > > > > -- > http://www.cirt.net/ >
