TGW, Get a freeware firewall on there as soon as possible. If he's willing to pay for PCAnywhere, I would put VNC on and rather get him to pay for BlackICE (although - maybe not), Norton Personal Firewall, ZoneAlarm Pro or something of the sort. Install Snort on the box and trim your ruleset to match the firewall + anything else you want to see. It might be handy to get the cygwin utils on there (www.cygwin.com) as they supply you with all sorts of good admin stuff from the GNU/Linux world that I just can't work without - even on a Windows box.
Other than that, best practises apply - use hfchknet to ensure you're patched up-to-date at all times. Uninstall everything you don't need on the box. Disable indexing and other random useless default services - and you're away. HTH. Regards, Scott Nursten On 6/2/02 0:39, "TGW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] spam> wrote: > Hello all. > I am a Programmer/Administrator, and I need help with 1 server of mine. Just > ideas, not money. :-) > Well, this guy i work for, has a win2k server at an ISP servers farm, > connected to the internet, with an ext IP. (192.XXX.XXX.XXX). Since he is > cheap, he won't authorize me buy (almost) any software. > Of course the win2k server is licensed, but he won't pay for anything else, > so we are in the freeware market - I won't go pirate. > > My questions: > This server should be a web (IIS based) server, Mail server, and optionally > FTP server. I know it's quite a lot, even for a Dual PIII700, but that's the > budget. > 1) I reckon I need a software firewall. any ideas? > 2) as a mail server I am using Mercury/32 from Pegasus. cons? > 3) I need a remote control program. pcanyware10.5? ( I know it'll cost me, > but i think i can make him buy this one too) > 4) is there any more security software I should use? > > Please don't answer with " You need a DMZ with 3 servers, a honeypot , a log > server"... > I know all that. I've been a Linux Admin for about a year, and built it from > scratch. > It's the windows security I feel puzzled about. > > So, please, contribute all your 2cents. :-) > TIA. > > Idan. >
