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All kiddinging aside, Mikey, the joke is on you. Despite the "pristine" Windows system you claim to be running, IIS is NOT secure and is incredibly vulnerable.

We were attacked yesterday and it was a THIRD PARTY app that caught it and stopped it way past where IIS *should* have: as a result we had auto shutdown, cleaning and blocking, then reboot of systems properly. Today we have no zombies.

Getting rid of the residual files from the attack was a sucky process, but IF a certain Windows product had worked as advertised...
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Good News Bad News  Nullifidian | 06/25/04
and i thought this was an IE flaw...  Monkey_MCSE | 06/25/04
not antivirus companies, but the engineers, my typo(NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 06/25/04
IIS Suckers!  Jeff Spicoli | 06/25/04
Resilient IIS comes through again...  Mike Cox | 06/25/04
Re: Resilient...  issthatso | 06/25/04
Don't forget  michael-t | 06/25/04
8.5 (NT)  WhoIsDaMan | 06/25/04
Dreck!  AbsolutelyNot | 06/25/04
Give me specifics...  Mike Cox | 06/25/04
if you can't keep an IIS server from being hacked....  toadlife | 06/25/04
I can keep Apache from being hacked.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 06/25/04
perhaps becuase  toadlife | 06/26/04
perhaps because  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 06/27/04
lucky  toadlife | 06/27/04
Answers - if you care  toadlife | 06/27/04
We Love The Microsoft Information Minister  Knorthern Knight | 06/25/04
IIS is a big, fat, easy target  "Mysterious | 06/25/04
5.5, You really didn't ...  Judas I. | 06/25/04
WOW, 2 posts  shallow_diver | 06/25/04
Hey doofus  TWRX | 06/26/04
Yep... Sure... And I've got a bridge I can sell you...  boomslang_z | 06/26/04
Catch a clue idiot - you can't detect sarcasm  boomslang_z | 07/14/04
3.5 - I don't know anyone who believes IIS is secure.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
Easy Fix  issthatso | 06/25/04
which web sites  rgriffith64@... | 06/25/04
I agree  d_jedi | 06/26/04
Please read the story next time  toadlife | 06/27/04
more than IIS  rgriffith64@... | 06/28/04
perhaps it was websites who's owners advertise heavily ...  oldskool | 06/27/04
Infected and Malicious Web Sites Should be Listed!  gec1000 | 06/28/04
Just use Mozilla, no one is targetting against its bugtrap  FilledOut | 06/25/04
Not mozilla, Firebird and Thunderbird  Nigel Johnstone | 06/25/04
Pardon me, Fire *fox*  Nigel Johnstone | 06/25/04
Not Firebird...  aldux | 06/25/04
Mozilla - UGH!  Confused by religion | 06/26/04
Opera  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 06/27/04
Opera - UGH!  toadlife | 06/28/04
Running Windows is playing Russian Roulette with ALL bullets!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 06/27/04
Infected and Malicious Web Sites Should be Listed!  gec1000 | 06/28/04
You Should Know  mrfab3 | 06/28/04
Nipped in the bud?  descombobulation | 07/03/04

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