Re: Code Red growth stats
In message <EA9368A5B1010140ADBF534E4D32C728025AB1@condor.mhsc.com>, Roeland Me yer writes:
From: Steven M. Bellovin [mailto:smb@research.att.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 7:36 PM
If it has indeed turned up again, I'm at a loss to explain it. While I'm sure there are some IIS servers on home machines, I doubt there are that many. But I don't have another explanation to offer.
Are you taking into account that every copy of Win2K comes with IIS? I had to quickly run around and do upgrades yesterday. I clean forgot about the workstations. I bet that I'm not the only one either.
Are you sure about that? Or rather, are you sure it's on by default? I just checked my toy desktop machine and rebooted to the other partition of my laptop, and didn't see it running on either.l To be sure, I'd have turned it off if I knew it was on, but I have no idea how to do things like that on Windows... --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
In message <EA9368A5B1010140ADBF534E4D32C728025AB1@condor.mhsc.com>, Roeland Me yer writes:
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Are you taking into account that every copy of Win2K comes with IIS? I had to quickly run around and do upgrades yesterday. I clean forgot about the workstations. I bet that I'm not the only one either.
Are you sure about that? Or rather, are you sure it's on by default? I just checked my toy desktop machine and rebooted to the other partition of my laptop, and didn't see it running on either.l To be sure, I'd have turned it off if I knew it was on, but I have no idea how to do things like that on Windows...
I am absolutely sure that the default for a workstation is NO IIS. I have two. They exist as victims, what else, and they are not running anything of the sort. I'm going to have to purchase one of those damnably expensive win2k server 5-license copies, just so that I can have the new fingerprint (hey, I only break my own machines for free). There is absolutely not an install of IIS on win2k Pro, unless you put it there. Oh, and I DO know how to do things like that on windows (but prefer not to). -- Does anybody else think that W2K actually is doing what Y2K only dreamed of? - Larry Sheldon
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