In that case, then it could be worse.
Have you completed the security checklist that Microsoft gives out free
from 
Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/secur
ity/Default.asp

and are you up to date on the hotfixes.

I know it sounds like ancient history, but there are still servers
infected with the Code-Red virus. As a matter of fact they say if you
setup a server and have it hooked to the internet that you will be
infected before you can download and install the patch.

Here is a simple but quick way to stop a lot of this. locate the CMD.EXE
file. take that file an move it to a folder that is setup to only be
accessed by the admin (ie remove the everyone access from that folder)

Go to you IIS logs usually under c:\winnt\system32\logfiles folder and
look at the logs files. Search for cmd.exe. It might surprise you what
has been going on through port 80 thanks to M$

Good Luck


Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com
Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm 
Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Brad Robertson
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: virus?? (OT)

Ben,

Thanks for the quick reply.  I will look into this.  The main thing that
baffles me is that I this box isn't used for anything but web and tango
app
server - I thought the box was pretty secure so I don't know how this
would
have been installed.

Brad


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: virus?? (OT)


Hey, I am not ruling out a virus, but you might want to look into
spyware detectors. They usually exhibit the behavior you are seeing

Try downloading Ad-Aware from http://www.lavasoft.de. When you download
the free Ad-Aware make sure you download it from either Mirror#1 or
Mirror#2 farther down the downloads list. The other sites like
MajorGeeks.com install the spyware you are trying to get rid of by
downloading Ad-Aware

Another free program is spybot (for windows only)
http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122138.html



Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com
Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm
Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:owner-witango-talk@;witango.com] On Behalf Of Brad Robertson
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:59 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
Subject: Witango-Talk: virus?? (OT)

Hello list,

I am not sure how to explain this, but on my Tango/IIS server (Win 2K,
SP2), I keep getting system popup windows that have advertisements. I
turned off the Alerter and Messenger service and still get them. Some
appear in my event log as application popup with no clues as to the
origin. Anybody getting these? Any ideas?

Regards,
Brad

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