From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 15 11:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D2D137B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 11:46:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alson@mediadesign.nl) Received: (qmail 20483 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Jun 2001 18:46:26 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:46:26 +0200 From: Alson van der Meulen To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Justification for using FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010615204626.N27948@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD-questions References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > I have been using IIS for about over two years now. > > It has performed well and if you follow the MS security guidelines, like > > unbinding TCP from Netbios, nobody can access the internal netbios network > > from the internet as far as I know. > > Coupled with the BlackICE firewall with the paranoid option and having > > port 80 as the ONLY available open port my site has been virtually > > impenetrable. At least nobody that I know has been able to prove they broke > > into it! > > Time to upgrade... :) Blackice now has holes in it too... :) IIS 5.0 has a remote 'root' hole in it... previous versions had security holes too i think... time to upgrade to apache or similiar ;) Alson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message