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by icetub

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My company's upper management seems to believe that the code red virus all of our pc's including those that are not running IIS 4 or IIS 5. I haven't found anything saying that non-IIS machines can be affected. Am I right or my bosses?

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by ann777

see (remove any spaces in the below link):
https://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220010813mco01.htm

specifically:
"A number of administrators forgot to take into account that the Code Red worm could also attack Windows 2000 Professional machines that were running IIS. Although IIS is not installed by default, some third-party programs require it and may install it as part of their installation routines. If these Win2K Pro machines have a public IP address, they are just as susceptible to the Code Red worm. In addition, if an internal IIS server gets infected, it could infect some of these Win2K Pro machines, which could then further propagate the worm."

Read the full article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by icetub

I know about the limited version of IIS being able to run on NT Workstation and W2K Pro and that they are vulnerable also...to me IIS is IIS but our user community has no access to install this on their pc's so that's not an issue. It's pc's with the regular base build. What about the Personal Web Service that comes with FrontPage?

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