Scan locks the administrator account

Scanning / scan configuration
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Hello,

I ran a scan against a Windows machine and this scan locked out the local administrator account.
The scan was “Full and fast”
Is this behavior to be expected?
If so, shouldn’t a warning appear that, for example, a brute force test is being performed on the administrator account?
My problem now is that the administrator account is locked out due to too many failed login attempts.

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Hello,

and welcome to this community forums.

The possible affects of the target host and network environment are documented here:

In this specific case the following applies:

  • Scans may result in user accounts being locked due to the testing of default user name/password combinations.
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Congrats you found a other denial of service vulnerability of your system :wink:

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@Heinz You can turn that off.

Eero