Mask/hide IIS6.0 and OS
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Topic: Mask/hide IIS6.0 and OS
Posted By: josk
Subject: Mask/hide IIS6.0 and OS
Date Posted: 21 April 2004 at 7:03am
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Hi,
I want mask my server so nobody knows what's my site is running. Is it IIS or apache? Windows or Unix? There is lot of services where you could find that info, example http://news.netcraft.com/ - http://news.netcraft.com/ Quering webwiz.net I get this information: The site webwiz.net is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000 How to fake my server/os information? Does anybody know? |
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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 21 April 2004 at 7:21am
why do you want to mask it  ------------- S2H.co.uk - http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/" rel="nofollow - WebWiz Mods and Skins For support on my mods + skins, please use http://www.s2h.co.uk/forum/" rel="nofollow - my forum . |
Posted By: josk
Date Posted: 21 April 2004 at 7:49am
For extra security! Many hackers get wrong information and try to use wrong security holes. |
Scotty_32 wrote:Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 21 April 2004 at 3:13pm
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response.addheader allows you to add or change a pages' header info that is sent to the browser. There are other ways of querying a site though. You'd be better off to ask this question in an IIS news group. With apache it's well documented, but don't know about IIS. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 22 April 2004 at 1:40pm
| There's nothing stopping people pinging your server to get the OS either... |
Posted By: josk
Date Posted: 22 April 2004 at 2:41pm
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Check this article!
http://www.port80software.com/support/articles/maskyourwebserver - http://www.port80software.com/support/articles/maskyourwebse rver |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 5:35pm
well then how did microsoft.com block pinging! (they probably couldn't figure out a way to charge for it  )------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 5:35pm
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i wonder if microsoft uses windows servers.. ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 April 2004 at 6:39pm
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They have a dmz where the firewall detects the incoming ping and either doesn't pass it along to the end destination and/or acts to mask the destination port. -------------
Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me. |