Jimmy S. wrote: >I would like to pose a question? Does anyone else have a problem with >Netcraft sweeping the web looking vulnerable servers to latest IIS buffer >overflow? > Considering that bad guys can (and do) do exactly the same thing, but with malicious intent, I have no problem at all with Netcraft collecting this data. As brvarian said, if you don't want this data collected, don't advertise it. If you are even half-way concerned about security, then you should not be advertising (accurate) application banners anyway. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
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