By Pia Heikkila, 2 October 2001 17:30
NEWS Microsoft customers look likely to reject Gartner's advice to ditch IIS over security fears and adopt alternative web servers. Gartner published a controversial warning last week, which advised IT professionals to stay away from Microsoft's IIS server because of its multiple security problems. But web survey company NetCraft claims websites don't hold security as their highest priority and added that the majority of sites hit by Code Red will simply make do with adding a filtering tool. NetCraft added: "It does seem that in most cases sites have been taken down, or port filtered as part of a general tightening of security in the wake of Code Red, rather than the Windows disks being formatted and replaced with Linux/Apache." Gartner advised users to switch to an iPlanet or Apache server.
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