I have recently found a rootkit on my computer through AVG and am wondering how to get this thing off. I tried to get AVG to delete it but it said it cannot. I heard you can re-install windows vista and also restore default settings but I am not sure if that deletes everything and I'll have to get...

Hello, I used to work with IIS in 2002 and am starting again in IIS6. I maintain a server with 3 websites on it: the default web site and two others. IIS has been configured allowing anonymous access to the content on all sites AFAIK. NTFS permissions seem to be set correctly as well. Here's the...

Hi. I have a server with Win2k3 with IIS6.0 and AD, and now I need advice on how to go about setting up the following scenario: - A site www.example.com has two subdirs, subdir1 and subdir2. - In AD I have two groups, group1 and group2, which users have been added to. - Users log into the subdirs based...

Okay, I have discovered an obvious bug. I am developer who works from a home office. I two (2) Windows XP Pro SP2 machines that are NOT on a domain; they are in a workgroup. I have my development tools (IDEs and the such) and IIS 5.1 running on my laptop (my development machine). I have the 1.1 and 2...

Hello, I have a website configured to use Windows Integrated Authentication. If I access the site from my XP workstation, I am able to authenticate as expected and browse the site. However, if I access the site from the IIS server hosting the website, I am prompted for credentials and I am not able to...

Hi, I'm new at Windows administration and coming from a unix admin background (I can hear the groans already). I've just been given the task of administering our clients user accounts and security on a Windows 2003 server running IIS 6.0 and Active Directory 5.2.3790.1830. What I'm trying to achieve...

I am using certificates for authentication. Everything was working normally until recently. Now when an https address is accessed on my server through IE everything works, but in Firefox the page does not load and no error is reported. How can I debug this? Thanks, Moses

I'm getting the exact error described in this kb article , and have now restarted IIS about 5,000 times as well as checking the Directory Security settings and deleted the asp.net temp folders almost as many. I cannot shake this error for the life of me. Does anyone else have any other ideas on how to...

Hi there everyone, I've recently completed the setup of our new 2003 / IIS6 based Test Web server. We have one static IP address pointed to this server, and use host headers to run up to 30 different test sites on the server at any one time. These sites change often, over a LOT of different clients....

I'm just starting to learn the new WCF stuff. After completing my first 'Hello World' example I ran into a problem. Everything works fine as long as I reference the service via the ASP.Net development server but when I try to reference the service via a virtual directory in IIS it gives the following...