I'm up a tree: the physical directory and subfolders of an ASP app of mine are stuck on READ-ONLY - refuses to change. This system is at SP#1. (The app works fine on another machine, a FAT-32 XP system.) I've RTFM. The properties/security tab on the physical folder involved shows ONLY sh...more >>

Actually I found a section of my logs that describes what I am concerned about... View at the end of this email... you can see that come from the same class B, however they are from different computers, different programs, and different operating systems even. (even though imagine that tha...more >>

Hotmail account hacked into by someone who used a hackers program to break the password. How do I disable the hotmail and msn account as this person is using them to impersonate and has left a folder in the hotmail account and leaves us threatening messages. Appreciate any help on this ...more >>

When I try to log on to my IIS web server out of IE 6.0 and i enter my Win Xp Pro user name and passeord I get an error that I do not have logon creditientals. HOw do I gain theses?...more >>

I installed IISLocdowntool and URLscan, what came with it. I set up my permissions etc. Meanwhile I had to uninstall IIS, then reinstall it. Now I have IIS up and running again, but can't figure out how to run URLscan again. I did search and have directory "urlscan" with urlscan.dll , ur...more >>

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 239875 I have been reading about this article and am a little confused can anyone give me a hand- please? 1. Which way should I access the root of my web to put the file ForceSSL.inc? 2. How should the script that is supposed to be at the top of the page...more >>

I use IE 6.0 I am unable to access the website that I've been visiting quite often. I get a pop up connection box asking me to enter credentials (login and pwd)! Pls help! Is there any IE settings to modify? Thanks...more >>

I have had my IIS server running with basic authentication for some time now with users connecting via the Internet with no problems until I signed up one of my user with Direcway (Satellite Internet access) - This user is able to browse the internet with no problems until he tries to conn...more >>

I am getting a message that my security settings are preventing the running of ActiveX. I am assuming this is why I cannot open jpg photos even from my files. PhotoSuite opens but nothing appears. Also when I scan with Norton AntiVirus the final report is a blank screen. When Microsoft upd...more >>

How can I set up user accounts to access an HTTP site, hosted on my IIS server, without them being able to log on to my machine locally? I'm using XP pro and I'd like to give a few people passwords to access some files, but their names appear as login options when I start my machine up....more >>

Hello all, I have an ASP web site which accesses middleware objects built using VB.NET. The web site runs under the 'Medium' Application Protection level. I get some Access denied error messages and hence I used FileMon utility to monitor file access. The dllhost.exe that is spawned as a seper...more >>

Can anyone explain (in some detail) how IIS checks CRL's for client PKI certs. The articles I have seen state that IIS uses the CRL CDP to verify client certificates. Is this true that IIS will use http or ldap (live) to verify a cert against a CRL. I have also read that IIS caches the CRL's ...more >>

How do I delete history on MSN where it says search the web. I double click and the history can't be erased...more >>

PLEASE someone help me, I use 3 different programs to clean up all the places I know of where internet activity and content like cookies, temp files, cache and fav's documents, history, Reg, URL and search but some where my computer has some sort of activity log file that my wife pulls up ...more >>

Hope somebody can help. I can't get into www.paypal.com. I get a Internet Explorer error window that says "Cannot display this page, check your settings." Does anyone know what settings I need to change. It's the only web site I can't get into. Please reply to my email address. thanks....more >>

What is it and how do you get rid of it ? My system is windows X P. PLEASE HELP! Corb ...more >>

I notice from time-to-time that I get out of the ordinary entries in my log file. Check out the lines below, I'm always used to seeing the "GET" function but what is the "PROPFIND"? You'll notice all the hack attempts and then the odd one on the last line. Help? ------ 01:51:28 68....more >>

Hello, I got the below error message in my event viewer of the webserver box. This error is under Application event "Certificate Services did not start: Could not build CA certificate chain for Houston Associates, Inc.. Cannot find object or property. 0x80092004 (-2146885628)." This ...more >>

Hello, I got the below error message in my event viewer of the webserver box. This error is under Application event "Certificate Services did not start: Could not build CA certificate chain for Houston Associates, Inc.. Cannot find object or property. 0x80092004 (-2146885628)." This ...more >>

Seems like a pretty basic question but I have the Windows SharePoint beta 2 and IIS 6 on my Win2k3 server and I want to create web folders. Seems easy but doesn't work. I can't get any access to the web share. Does one need to globally enable WebDav on the IIS 6 server? and if so, how? (I have...more >>

Hi, I'm running IIS under Win2003 Server, and have "client authentication required" enabled but with mapping from the client cert to the Windows username NOT enabled. Is there any way to have IIS log the username from the client's certificate logged to the IIS log file, without the user h...more >>

Gentlemen: My windows XP program keeps shutting down and it comes up: C\windows\Minidump\Mini090303-01dmp and C\DOCUME^1John^1JOHN\Locals^1\Temp\wer3temp.cir00 \systemmdate.xmj. How do I get these out of my system? These errors keep shutting me down. John Willis...more >>

Hi all, We are experiencing a strange problem with all websites we password protect. We have a win2k/IIS5 server which we host test versions of websites we develop. All of the sites are password protected, using folder security. We removed IUSR account and added a locally created user, in IIS,...more >>

Hi, I have the following situaton: A one way outgoing trust exists between a Windows Enterprise Server 2003 domain [A] and a Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server Domain [B]. A trusts B A global group on B containing all users from B is added to a local group on A. This local group has ...more >>

I'm trying to run multiple sites on a cluster of webservers. Most of the sites use SSL. I have the certificates installed, and a port number of 443 specified. However, only some of the sites will answer requests for https://sitename, while others return simply a dns error. Clean inst...more >>

I have a number of sites that have secure certs due to expire shortly. I want to use a different issueing authority for the new certs. Advice I have had suggests I have to remove the existing cert. and then generate a new CSR. This means the sites will have no certificate during the renewa...more >>

Hi, I'm working on win 2003 server and IIS 6.0 how can I connect an ftp user without password?? I get the error: 503 user cannot log in but if I give him a password and try to connect, it works fine. I think that is a IIS security issue but I don't know how to disable it. Thanks....more >>

We are looking at what to use to control users security through WEB apps connected to a SQL2K data base. Different users will have different ability to access data in the DB. We were thinking about using Active Directory for the user database. WEB apps would require access to information in...more >>

Would like to setup SSL internally for an HR application, but would like to set it up without a third party certificate. It there a way to generate a certificate like apache for an intranet application?...more >>

My computer will popup ads via C;\windows\system32 \srvhost.com from sites like byebyeads.com,againstfat.com,messagedestroyer.net,messages top.com,and endads to name a few. Is there any way to stop this? My McAfee firewall stops the flow of data but, I still have to close numerous windows. ...more >>

When I tried to check for new mail this evening the computer asked me for sign-in information; i.e., my E-mail addres and passwordd. I do not remember the password, nor do I remember ever creating one. Please help me. How do I find my password, or create a new one?...more >>

Here's my question: How do I find the WEP key in Windows XP? I have tried and tried and cannot located it on my computer. I am trying to set up a wireless network with another computer in my house and I am using a Microsoft Wireless Adapter. In order to complete installation, I must ty...more >>

Hello. After doing a baseline security analysis, I found that the IUSER account is a member of the local admins group.. I have asp.net installed and running on the webserver. I do not want to disrupt anything running on the server, what should I do to correct this, I definatally do not w...more >>

When I click on my explorer icon, the first page that pops up is a "401 EVP WARNING" message. The message is designed to look authentic and be very scary. It states that key words for porn have been detected on your computor. It states that we are being watched and when the last time we...more >>

"Save Password" box in Outlook Express does not seem to be working. I downloaded Knowledge Base Article 815229 which explains how to make changes to the Registry for Windows XP. Step #5 in the "Resolution" says to go to the Security Menu...where is the Security Menu? I would really appre...more >>

We have an IIS server running on an NT4 BDC. We have a developer who needs to run the IIS admin as well as start/stop the IIS service. Any way to do this without making him a domain admin? would not want to do that. thanks Matt...more >>

Somehow now every web page on IE 6, including MSN, brings up Pop-up Window 'Content Advisor' requiring me to log in password to continue - I cannot set disable because I can't recall/remeber setting up pasword to proceed..., How can I change/Delete the password in this prompt?????? I'm using Wi...more >>

I am running multiple websites on my test Windows Advanced Server IIS 5.0 by using the same IP and multiple ports. I am having problems when I am testing SSL. If the website runs on Port 80 the test certificate (14 day trial) runs fine, but will not run under a specified port. We cannot...more >>

I have a site that show folders and files on internet explorer browser, this site is running normally in IIS4.0, but when I copy the files, NTFS permissions, site configuration to IIS6.0 it does not works. If I want that this site works I need to add the userid to the server/administrators...more >>

Hihi, I don't know why my web server always thougth smtp send e- mail to some specific IP addresses. I install IIS 4.0 but not include SMTP service. And I get this from the log of my firewall. My isp warn me don't send spam mail to some specific IP address. So, I block the smtp s...more >>

Can a Lay-Person access Instant Messenger Transcripts or request such from Microsoft?...more >>

I keep getting a e-mail form Microsoft with an attachment. I know that Microsoft does not send e-mails. Therefore the attachment is a virus and they just keep on coming, every day. I called my server and they said that they can not stop it at their end. Is it possible for me to stop it a...more >>

Recently I've been getting attacked from somewhere and I can't figure out where, or what ports this attack is coming from. We host a web application that accesses a SQL Server to retrieve it's information. I have a NetScreen NS50 firewall, and it doesnt' seem to tell me the source IP add...more >>

Hi - below is the original post. I've just seen a huge jump in activity for this problem. Date and times aren't included but they're coming every minute at fairly regular intervals - well over a thousand a day now - this will eventually bring our system down if we can't solve this one. Can any...more >>

I am receiving this 403.6 Forbidden error even though their a no restrictions set on the server. Has my metabase been corrupted? I am running iis4 on NT4 sp6a SRP. This appeared after I tried to allow reverse DNS lookups in iis. Thank You ...more >>

Windows 2000 Server SP 4, IIS 5. I am setting up and securing a web server, based on article HOW TO: Harden the TCP/IP Stack Against Denial of Service Attacks in Windows 2000 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;Q315669&sd=tech I was successfully able to change r...more >>