re: Finding malware in your Web Site using IIS SEO Toolkit

frymaster — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:26:02 GMT

An important point, worth repeating - while people, quite rightly, say that consumer linux is pretty safe from viruses, because noone bothers to write them, the same is NOT true of exploits and intrusion attempts. For obvious reasons, various versions of linux are targeted, either by trying to brute-force passwords or by exploiting weaknesses in common services. And once you have user-level access to a server, chances are you _will_ be able to turn that into root access. I'm on the security mailing list for the distro of linux my server runs on, and escalation attack fixes are not uncommon. Whichever OS a server uses, it needs to be hardened and locked down, and unnecessary services stopped. There is no OS capable of being used for servers that can remain resiliant in the case of careless adminning, though different kinds have different mitigation strategies

re: Finding malware in your Web Site using IIS SEO Toolkit

ntulip — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:34:35 GMT

nice - 1st - i had no idea there was an iis seo toolkit - so thank for that.