I have my McAFEE Security at max and blocking all spam but I keep getting this one pop-up from www.byebyeads.com stateing that the only way to get rid of their pop-up is to bye their spam blocking product and if I don't they will just keep sending their spam every hour or so. Any answers? T...more >>

HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU STOP ANNOYING POP UPS THAT OCCUR EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE POP UP STOPPER?? SOME OF THESE ARE PRETTY DISGUSTING AND DON'T EVEN RELATE TO THE SITES YOUR CURRENTLY VIEWING THANKS...more >>

Hello: I believe my home computer has been hacked. Whenever I go to a particular webiste, I am forwarded to another site automatically. It is clearing it is some sort of joke, because it is a site no one would want to go to. How can I correct this? Kevin ...more >>

I am looking for a Digital Rights Management Solution that will allow me to control if and how my online texts and images content can be viewed, printed, saved or downloaded. I need something that will alow me to determe the length of time mycustomers can preview a specific piece of co...more >>

After installing the blaster worm patch, I cannot connect to my remote desktop from the web, it automatically disconnects....more >>

I'm not sure if I have the right newsgroup. I am getting the following error message when trying to download PDF files: Microsoft Internet Explorer This page provides potentially unsafe information to an Active X control. Your current security settings prohibit running controls in th...more >>

I'm trying to move our website from an external host to run on our internal server. However, when you pull the site up from outside our network, it always asks for a login. Any domain account login will let you pass thru, but I need this site have anonymous access. I have checked NTFS and SHARE ...more >>

we host a website internally for internal clients only webiste a record is hosted on our internal dns server website is set to use integrated windows authentication alone with the auto created host header i also created a host header that answers just by IP address, since the website was not bei...more >>

I clicked my update option in internet explorer and began downloading a set of updates and patches. Durring the download my Norton Anti-Virus detected a virus. When I looked closer at the web site I was connected to it read: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp Is this a real...more >>

I keep getting pop ups on my computer that say messenger service on the title bar, I'm talking around 50 per day, and they are advertising ways to stop receiving these annoying pop ups by going to a website and paying money for the information. Does anyone know how to change something on ...more >>

I received an email from security@microsoft.com with a return path of admin@duma.gov.ru. It has an attachment called patch.exe. Is this a virus or is this an actual patch? Thanks Maggie...more >>

All, I have an ASP Application in which users can save a recordset as an Excel spreadsheet should they choose to do so. When the app was on test box all was well but when I moved it to production, the page failed and IE returned an error saying that the page was not available The lines of...more >>

I have searched and searched, but I probably just don't know the vocabulary for searching for code that lets me leave a port "open" like Port 80 or Port 135-139 which I have open on my little lab\lan at home. I am looking for a source code solution, not another firewall, not a 3rd party u...more >>

I have a server running Exchange 2000 that also has the company website on it using Front Page extensions. When you run IIS lockdown the templates let you choose between OWA and Front page server extension , but not both. After trying various configurations Im unable to get both working ...more >>

Hi, Quick question. Is IIS capable of encrypting a database connection string file to an Oracle database? I know this is possible at the ASP level but want to avoid making changes to an off the shelf web application. I took this up with Oracle who advised that it was a Microsoft Issu...more >>

Hi, Can someone please help! I'm tring to Create a Server Certificate Request within IIS6 but get a "Failed to Generate the Certificate Request - Access Denied" error upon finish of "IIS Certificate Wizard". Below is the request information used. Issued To aghwks009 Friendly Name Def...more >>

How do you enable Smart Card Authentication in IIS 6.0? What we want to be able to do is use a smartcard to authenticate users to web pages served on an IIS 6.0 Server. Config: Windows 2003 Web Edition Member of a Domain Users authenticate on the domain. When I attended the 2003 launc...more >>

I am using Integrated Windows authentication. When I try to navigate to Http://[MachineName] it works as expected. When I try to navigate to Http://[Machine IP Address] I get a login dialog prompting my for my domain credentials. How do I prevent the logon prompt when using Integrated ...more >>

Newbie! I set up a virtual directory on a mapped drive (another machine). I cannot access it. Besides the default virtual directory security settings and ntsf of the drive, what am I missing? Any resource for absolute beginners? ...more >>

Hello all! I have used several 'hardening checklists' for IIS5. I have even written one for in-house. We have alot of Webservers to include NT4 to 2000. We just had started rolling out some 2003 servers. The MMC is a little different and IIS 6.0's defaults are alot tighter. However, sin...more >>

I got this computer from a friend, and he set a password to restrict the sites on the Internet explorer, so anytime I want to use explorer, it asks for a password that I dont have, he cant find it anywhere. Is there a way to get rid of this and get the explorer to let me browse the net? I get t...more >>

Hi all: I've been having oodles of trouble lately with my IWAM and IUSR account not having the proper permissions to run out-of-process applications, and have painstakingly followed all relevant Microsoft Knowledge Base articles and advice from people in here, and no matter what, the synciwam....more >>

I get a pop-up login box before hitting the OWA screen asking for the mailbox name. This situation is not consistant on all machines. Some people are getting this when they hit the site and others just go straight to the logon.asp page. Please help!!!...more >>

Using certificate server on an IIS 5 box. After creating certificate request, we get the response that CA certificate is ready for download. When this link is clicked, instead of being prompted for a location to which to save the certificate, the certificate is displayed as HTML and we ar...more >>

Why do certain plebs keep posting questions that have absolutely no relevance to IIS on this newsgroup? Are they genuinely thick or just trying to annoy us?...more >>

I am trying to see all of the folders on an IIS 5 server from Front Page 2002 while doing an insert of an image from a folder on the IIS 5 server where I just imported the file using Front Page 2002. The folder is not visible in the pop up window for the insert, but I can see it in the tr...more >>

Hi Using Win2K, a server has IP filtering for FTP purposes. For added security, the 2 accounts used for FTP are normally disabled. However, yesterday both users had been enabled, had logged in, done their job and disconnected, and the accounts disabled. One user accidentally reopened ...more >>

I am trying to use SSL for one of my web sites using cetrtificate services in windows 2000. I have installed stand alone CA root into the web server itself and followed the instructions as per KB article 228821, 265847 and 228836. I am still getting Error message "The page cannot be dis...more >>

I had an IIS server that was recently compromised by an intruder. I've been going through it to see what I can learn. While I know enough to use MetaEdit to look at my metabase.bin, I'm really not sure to look for to determine if it was tampered with. If anyone can provide any recommendations...more >>

i have iis 5.0 running under ssl and need to configure an exe to run for a certain web site. I can do this by right clicking on the site choosing properties and clicking configurations to add the exe mapping ( which is installed in c:\inetpub\). Then I click ok and select execute permi...more >>

I want to change the logon account for the WWW publishing service to something other than the system account. But I get the following error on restart. "The World Wide Web Publishing Service service failed to start due to the following error: The account specified for this service is d...more >>

I have installed the fire wall and have a virus protector as well as a spam blocker form Earthlink. Still I am receiving "Messenger Service" ads from: www.MessageDestroy.net www.StopIt.biz www.TeenSexFactory.com How do I block these messages? They are annoying. They appear to be com...more >>

Hi all, I just want to know that whether Java Web Server will crashed with IIS if they placed in the same workstation?? If yes,anything that can I set to make them work together?? After I reboot the server, JWS seems like cant start at all. Anything I can do for this??...more >>

I've read the iissecurity faq's in this. i have a firewall, I need those TCP Ports open (135-139), but not UPD ports and my firewall isn't that granular. The port is open or closed. Is there source code (VB, C++, C, C# for either MS VS6 or .Net compiles) I can run for my Win2000 server ...more >>

In my organization we use Microsoft SUS server to push out updates to clients and servers. For some reason the IIS security update 811114 causes Exchange 2000 to crash (information store stops and won't restart until that patch is uninstalled). In looking at the details of the patch is looks li...more >>

If have created the following: On server x an FTP site with homedirectory f:\ftp. In this site there is a virtual directory virtual which is the alias for d:\virtual. Now i want to make a connection form an external server with user1 to the FTP site. But user1 must have d:\virtual as th...more >>

I have come across an internet address "i-lookup favorites" which has taken over my internet browser...how can I permanently delete this from my computor??...more >>

I am using Integrated Windows Authentication to protect a directory on a web server. All clients connect and authenticate using MSIE using W2k or better. It works fine inside my LAN, and on some other places outside my LAN, but on some computers when I connect to the password protected directory ...more >>

I am not sure how to block out porno sights from my children. They should not have access to these sites. I need a little direction to block these out. Thank You....more >>

I am unable to download and install q822925.exe IE5.5 update patch. When I press the go button on //www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/822925 /default.asp. the download page appears for a second or so and then changes to " the page cannot be displayed" etc. I tried it several ti...more >>

I have been testing Windows Server 2003 and discovered that sometime after installing WS2003, a file with the name of "~" appears on the administrator desktop. The file is a binary file about 172K in size with some text visible in it: "Main Identity's Contacts" The most recent event was ...more >>

About a week ago I started to see a sudden jump in the URLScan logs containing the following entries - coming from a fairly wide range of IP address. 220.1.32.141: Sent verb 'SEARCH', which is not specifically allowed. Request will be rejected. 63.93.158.6: Sent verb 'SEARCH', which is not sp...more >>

It's a very simple asp page, just writes to a text file (I narrowed it down to this). The page just hangs. If I comment out the creation of the text file, the page displays just fine. Please help. Thanks....Claro ---------------- <% Dim fso, MyFile, outfilename outfilename = "c:\tes...more >>

Running Windows 2000 Pro and cannot open email internet links in outlook express version 6 after installing SP1. I need a work around. Jonathan...more >>

please help...even after entering my password for content advisor I cannot disable it. It will take my password so I know it is correct. We have spoke to Microsoft on the phone and they said it was a software problem. They was to e-mail me something over to correct this problem. I have...more >>

I recently downloaded Internet explorer 6 and when I installed it, this web browser I-lookup keeps starting whenever I boot up IE6. I tried to make another browser my default but it keeps changing back to I-lookup. I looked through my files and deleted those that were related to i-lookup ...more >>

Since updating our security, I can now not open any email attachments at all, including those coming from sources of the highest security! How can these attachments be accessed? Regards Lisa...more >>

We have a one way trust relationship setup with an MIT Kerberos realm (BERKELEY.EDU). Via basic authentication we would like for users to authenticate with their UPN and passphrase stored in the MIT Kerberos realm. The user accounts are mapped in Active Directory (campus.berkeley.edu) to the ex...more >>

i created an intranet based web pages. How do i make sure that other customers from different domains can view it?...more >>

i have twice tried to download and install current windows updates, both times my computer successfully downloads but fails to install the updates. it did install a Windows update pack, but when i try to do the security updates it won't install....more >>