I code up sites written for ASP.NET 3.5. They have security built in but I'd like to go further. I'd like to understand what exploits are currently being used and attempt those on various versions of sites. (Staging and live.) Having had a quick look at cracker tools, I'd prefer a tech. savvy...

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...

Had to rebuild an XP Pro desktop (SP3) with IIS 5.1. Running a Visual Studio web application that will not connect to a remote SQL Server throught IIS. Get Server does not exist or access denied. Here are the facts: > Duplicate workstation works fine with exact same web app > IIS will connect to...

I am unable to import an RSA key container from an XML file using aspnet_regiis -pi. Here is the exact command that I am using: aspnet_regiis -pi "MyKeystore" C:\dev\keys.xml This does not throw any errors when run from the command line. Instead, it displays the full list of options similar...

Hi, After installing a third party application onto our IIS we ran into issue we security. We thought it was our project acting up and we decided to delete and recreate the virtual directory for the same project. Now, in Visual Studio 2005 when using the "Remote Website" option to open our...

Friends, I'm new to this forum. i could not configure my web application in iis 6.0 and i'm getting the below error. Server Application Unavailable The web application you are attempting to access on this web server is currently unavailable. Please hit the "Refresh" button in your web...

We use a third party CMS that claims to provide a load balancing configuration where the end users can edit markup, upload images, etc. to modify the contents of their websites. We are preparing to offer this load balancing/fail over configuration as an option. As a proof of concept I have to configure...

This is excatly what I have been doing for a few years, A collegue and I are in the middle of writing it up as a high level design, hopefully if we can remove the corporate references we will publish this as a paper but a few thing to note so far are We use CIFS (windows shares on sep file server for...