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[al johson]

Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:57 PM
Subject: WHERE ARE YOU?


> WHERE ARE YOU?
> Security /Hacking /News
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> 80,000 Microsoft servers 'disappear'
> By James Middleton, vnunet.com [02-10-2001]
> The impact of Code Red and related viruses such as Nimda has caused over
> 150,000 IIS-based websites on around 80,000 different machines to
> disappear from the internet. It has also resulted in the closure of one
> of the most visible proponents of Microsoft technology for mass hosting.
>
> According to the most recent Netcraft web server report, released this
> week, a significant number of sites running IIS fell off the web during
> the Code Red crisis.
>
> The number of IIS servers hooked up to the internet went down even more
> when Webjump, an IIS-based virtual hosting service, went under. At the
> time it died, Webjump hosted around 280,000 sites.
>
> Microsoft suffered a further blow on the back of this when analyst
> Gartner Group issued a strongly worded advisory recommending IIS users
> to evaluate alternative products.
>
> Only around 2000 of the 80,000 IP addresses running IIS that disappeared
> turned up running a competing web server, indicating that users have yet
> to react to Gartner's advice.
>
> Despite evidence to suggest that administrators have been securing their
> servers throughout a period of heightened worm activity, Netcraft's
> research "shows that numbers of vulnerable Microsoft IIS sites are
> actually starting to rise again, after the initial shock and disruption
> of Code Red prompted many sites to patch for the first time", said the
> company.
>
> Of those high profile sites seen to switch from Microsoft platforms to
> Linux, the most noticeable are search engine Infoseek, and the FBI,
> which is pushing the secure Linux bandwagon anyway.
>
> But the report did show that Microsoft still owns almost 50 per cent of
> the web server market, while Linux is in second place with almost 30 per
> cent. Next is Solaris and BSD with seven per cent and six per cent
> respectively.
>
> "The trend is of Linux steadily increasing, Windows maintaining a large
> share, and the others slowly losing share," said Netcraft.
>
> But while Microsoft may have the lion's share on a per machine basis, on
> a per site basis Apache is king. Because a great majority of the world's
> websites are located at hosting and co-location companies, and
> technically sophisticated hosting companies can run several thousand
> websites on a single computer, the result is more sites running Apache.
>
> On this level, Apache holds 60 per cent of the market, while Microsoft
> only manages to hang on to 30 per cent.
>
> Netcraft's September 2001 survey was based on data gathered from
> 32,398,046 websites and can be seen here.