Spencer Ruport of netortech.com modified my FTP ban script into one that stops dictionary attacks. And he chooses not to ban via the problematic IIS way but instead creating a bad route for the offending IP address. Pretty darn ingenius.

Set objFTPSVC = GetObject("IIS://localhost/MSFTPSVC") Set objFSO = …

UPDATE 12/18/06: The startup script has been modified slightly (cscript.exe was changed to wscript.exe). Now, console users will no longer encounter a blank black box upon login. UPDATE 11/21/06: Now that banning at the IP level has been added to the script, offending users are completely banned before they can even …

I recently loaded up one of my servers and out of nowhere, I ran into this error:

Server Configuration Error The server has encountered a configuration error attempting to process your request. The configuration parameter MD_CUSTOM_ERROR (6008) has an invalid value. Please contact the server administrator for …

Using a Custom 404 error script in IIS makes it possible to emulate a very basic URL rewrite.

Sample Environment - IIS 6 - Website domain: "www.me.com" - URLRewrite directory: "code"

Steps 1. Create a file named rewrite.asp in the code directory. 2. Add a Custom Error for the 404 Not Found. Open up …

I dug up this cold from my old netnerds blog. For Googlers wondering if sustaining a remote session is possible, the answer is yes; I've sustained remote cookie sessions using both ASP & VBScript. I've provided simplified code below. It should be self explanatory. If not, drop me a comment and I'll explain it. …

I used the following code a while back as part of a solution to automate the banning of spammers via their IP address.

'Here, we will pretend this is an imported list Dim XMLarr(1) XMLarr(0) = "65.19.238.21" XMLarr(1) = "198.31.175.100"

Set objIIS = GetObject("IIS://localhost/w3svc") …

This script should work right out of the box..

<% Call getNews(10)

Sub getNEWS(howManyResults) myRSSfile = "https://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/tech"

Set xmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP.4.0") xmlHttp.Open "Get", myRSSfile, false xmlHttp.Send() myXML = xmlHttp.ResponseText

Set …

Find IIS Servers on your domain (or with modifications, your subnet) using this script

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ' Author: Chrissy LeMaire ' Copyright 2003 NetNerds Consulting Group ' Script is provided AS IS with no warranties or guarantees and assumes no …

I love parsing through IIS logfiles but I dislike the directory structure that Microsoft creates for IIS logging. Each site has a randomly generated directory name so, for example, "netnerds.net" could store its files in "C:\windows\system32\logfiles\W3SVC720199813." Who wants to track that down? …