Frontpage was not originally development by Microsoft, they bought ir or the original company, realised Frontpage was an abomination and dumped it. It has been discontinued and unsupported for many years, it has all kinds of security issues.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > > Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, It was a > piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML. > The only thing worse than Front Page were the IIS extensions that would > routinely bring IIS to it's knees, or blow up IIS entirely. > > It looks like someone is trying to hit your sites with a Front Page > Editor or trying to find the FP specific files/folders to attempt an > exploit. > > deny.. deny...deny > > Every time someone uses MS Front Page, a kitten dies.. > > On 2/22/2013 11:26 AM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote: > > Hi, > > My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 > (compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0) > > - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in > my sites; > > - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like > > - /_vti_inf.html > > - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc > > The result is that the visitors are tagged as "bad bot". > > What are they looking for? > > Should I let them go or what? > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354650 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
