A most serious, easily exploitable vulnerability in ClamAV versions prior to 0.91.2, recently released, could allow an attacker to compromise a system by sending an e-mail to it. The issue is in clamav-milter, the sendmail plug-in for the anti-virus, which...

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June 27, 2007

Wednesday, June 27, 2007 2:42 PM/EST

Windows Server 2008 Sighted

Microsoft and some other companies have begun to shift their homepage Web servers to Windows Server 2008 (formerly known as Longhorn) and IIS 7.0 (Internet Information Services). Netcraft's read on the Microsoft homepage actually shows a lot of different readings...

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June 5, 2007

Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:43 AM/EST

No .NET In IIS7 Server Core—for Now

IIS7 may be back in Windows Server 2008's Server Core, but the official word from Microsoft is that .NET still isn't. That means no ASP.NET. IIS without ASP.NET? It's like Oreos without the white stuff. Who would bother? Perhaps Microsoft...

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June 4, 2007

Monday, June 04, 2007 4:35 PM/EST

IIS 7 Back in Server Core

When I first heard about the Windows Server 2008 (nee "Longhorn") Server Core I thought about using it as a Web server, and was disappointed to hear that this was not an available use of the software. I guess I...

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May 31, 2007

Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:20 AM/EST

Schedule a Reboot as a Lockup Failsafe

Susan Bradley has a great tip on her SBS (Small Business Server) Diva Blog for patching, especially in remote operations, but it's more than just patching. Sometimes when you work remotely, over a Terminal Server connection typically for Windows servers,...

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May 9, 2007

Wednesday, May 09, 2007 8:10 PM/EST

Hope You're Not Running Windows Server 2003 SP0...

Thanks to the ISC for pointing out that Microsoft, last month, ended support for the initial release (what they call "SP0") of Windows Server 2003. The just-released set of patches for Windows, including some very serious ones for Server 2003,...

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April 24, 2007

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:46 PM/EST

Security By Antiquity?

I just stumbled across something interesting, perhaps not as big an issue as I think: NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology)'s Computer Security Resource Center web site, which is there to spread information on good IT security practice,...

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