Re: IIS Worm

["Mark Hetherington" <mark.egroups@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Graham Howe" <graham@s...> wrote:
> Correction to problem 2 below. I CAN ping from my server to another
site
> both by IP address and name, so the my ISPs gateway and DNS must be
> correctly set up. However I can not browse from Internet Explorer to
> anywhere. I have now uninstalled IE6, but I have the same problem
with the
> previous version (IE5.5). I can't run the connection wizard as it
has some
> missing files but to be honest there shouldn't be a need to do so
as I am
> connecting through my ISPs LAN.
>
> Any suggestion would be most welcome.

Look in Tools -> Internet Options -> Connection. Make sure that IE is
not trying to use some mythical DUN to connect.

In the same place, check any proxy settings are valid. Try turning
the proxy off completely in case it just happens to be temporarily
unavailable.

If Connection Wizard is missing files, it seems that the IE 5.5
installation may be compromised. I suggest going back to IE 6 since
it should install appropriate files for the IE 6 connection wizard
assuming you downloaded the appropriate files for it. For a LAN
connection it is as you say pretty pointless anyway other than it
selecting LAN as the routing mechanism which can be acheived through
options.

Is IE reporting any error messages?

Try browsing to the local machine. You should be able to browse to:
http://machinename/dirfromwwwroot/file.htm(l)
http://localhost/dirfromwwwroot/file.htm(l)
http://127.0.0.1/dirfromwwwroot/file.htm(l)
http://yourstaticip/dirfromwwwroot/file.htm(l)

The path and filename is optional but you will likely get
an "unauthorised" response if there is nothing appropriate in the
root of wwwroot for the local host to display.

This will help decide whether it is merely routing of some form or a
problem with the IE installation.

BTW on a security note while you are checking this, if the above
reports a directory list when using not path or filename, you will
need to disable directory browsing from the IIS Management Console on
the wwwroot tree.

HTH.

Mark.



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