Note that IIS isn't even the most popular web server
(http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html).  

-- Bhaskar

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:26 -0400, Nancy Anthracite wrote:
> Time for a web search for a work-around ... meanwhile, those with XP Pro have 
> IIS as an option for their installation.  Can they least try it or does it 
> take something more than that, I wonder?  
> 
> Anyone who uses IIS, be careful. It is a popular target.  A few years back I 
> was using it to debug some code for a web site that was going to run on an 
> IIS server.  I got hit successfully with my first virus when I was using it.  
> My screen blanked and a message came up, "You have been hacked by Chinese."  
> I shut it down and reformatted the disk.  After that, I didn't start it when 
> my machine was connected to the Internet. 


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