There appears to be a WIDE spread issue with IIS 4 and IIS 5 right now. The services will automatically shut down when attacked. There is patches (old Patches) that seem to fix the problem YET the patch says its for Microsoft Index server (a lot of people are not running Index server, yet this patch fixes the crashing problem. Upon further reading of the bulletin below it say " Affected Software: a.. Microsoft Index Server 2.0 b.. Indexing Service in Windows 2000 " Most people will not install this if they are not running the software listed above. The above should have also said IIS 4 and IIS 5 are affected. And it does if you read the technical section.. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/ bulletin/MS01-033.asp for IIS4 /NT4 http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/critical/q300972/default.asp for IIS5/Win2000 http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/critical/q300972/default.asp --------------------------------------- Jim Hribnak Manager Communication Services Nucleus Inc. 403-209-0000
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