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Michael Morisy
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 What should I do about the Microsoft FTP IIS vulnerability?
FTP permission, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Open IT Forum, Patch Tuesday
Open IT ForumMicrosoft announced its next patch Tuesday fix will cover five critical issues, but a fix for the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 vulnerability. What are you doing, if anything, to protect your systems since malicious code is already circulating?

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Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
ASKED: September 8, 2009  1:58 PM
UPDATED: September 24, 2009  6:02 PM
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We disabled FTP and only use it when absolutely necessary and even then with authenticated accounts only. The FTP service is then disabled again when no longer needed.
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Good idea/approach Labnuke99…goes back to the “only enable the services you need” principle of security. Staying current with patches, of course, helps too.

Kevin Beaver
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