** Private ** wrote:
> What account does Apache start under?  

The account you configure it to start under.


>> The most 
>> obvious privilege is the privilege to start processes under a 
>> different user account.
> 
> The IIS worker process starts under it's own identity - Network 
> Service.

Run "netstat -ano" on your Windows system with IIS and find the PID of the 
process that owns port 80. Then go to taskmgr: which account does that process 
run under? If there is a bug in that process and that bug gets exploited, what 
account will the exploit run under?

Jochem

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