ARTICLE: Microsoft Web Server Security Flaw
Thought some of you may be interested in this . . . apparently, a .dll file
installed w/Frontpage extensions in IIS is a backdoor . . . the engineers
@ MS included a "secret password" in the dvwssr.dll file . . . it says
"Netscape engineers are weenies" backwards, if you can believe it. Microsoft
is urging webmasters to delete the dll file, according to the articles i've
read - they haven't posted a word about it on their security vulnerability
page . . . here's a link to the story:
http://aolpf.marketwatch.com/source/blq/aolpf/news/current/press_briefing.as
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