I only have a guess as to what MS eventually did. But Code Red slams your box several times a second--not every few minutes --effectively creating a DoS attack. I _think_ that IIS either refuses connections from that IP for a certain period of time or that it just refuses to answer the request. No one here (to my knowledge, and I hope) ever recommended to run IIS to eliminate one of these attacks. These will look like a DoS attack and the only way to eliminate them is to get the IP from the Web Messaging log and then block it at the router or firewall.
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Koontz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:20 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IWEBMSG: 'no action has been taken' > That is even more disturbing, to be forced to run IIS to fix a bug in > iMail??? What if I don't want IIS and it's own security shortcomings on the > mail server? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@;list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] IWEBMSG: 'no action has been taken' > > > I have seen mention on this forum before of a suggestion to run IIS on port > 80 and set up a .asp page that does a redirect to the off port that you set > for Imail. The thought behind this is IIS is much stronger to handle code > red attacks and such. > > If you search the archives, I am sure you will be able to find it, or > someone might post more information about that redirect. > > John Tolmachoff > IT Manager, Network Engineer > RelianceSoft, Inc. > Fullerton, CA 92835 > www.reliancesoft.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
