diff --git a/doc/THANKS b/doc/THANKS
index e6523ea38..007313361 100644
--- a/doc/THANKS
+++ b/doc/THANKS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Daniele Bellucci <daniele.bellucci@gmail.com>
 Jack Butler <fattredd@hotmail.com>
     for providing me with the sqlmap site favicon
 
+Roberto Castrogiovanni <castrogiovanni.roberto@gmail.com>
+    for reporting a minor bug
+
 Cesar Cerrudo <cesar@argeniss.com>
     for his Windows access token kidnapping tool Churrasco included in
     sqlmap tree as a contrib library and used to run the stand-alone
diff --git a/plugins/generic/takeover.py b/plugins/generic/takeover.py
index a10c1692c..42a3321e2 100644
--- a/plugins/generic/takeover.py
+++ b/plugins/generic/takeover.py
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ class Takeover(Abstraction, Metasploit, Registry):
 
         if not conf.regVal:
             msg    = "which registry key value do you want to delete? "
-            regVal = readInput(msg, default=default)
+            regVal = readInput(msg)
 
             if not regVal:
                 raise sqlmapMissingMandatoryOptionException, errMsg