Hi, I have been chasing this problem now for over 2 weeks. The problem seems to have come after completing a windows update on all 3 of my PC's running Windows XP Pro SP3. When you first start the PC's up they will fetch an ASP page from a localhost web site and you can navigate around the localhost...

Any request to any slightly incorrect piece of ASP code seems to do this. IIS simply stops responding to all requests for ASP - although it will happily continue serving HTML pages. It seems more often than not that the faulty piece of code is something to do with ADO - perhaps a connection to a database...