Security-by-power-button

To Paraphrase:

Microsoft recommends that customers running IIS 4.0 on Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition, protect their systems by uninstalling IIS 4.0.

I couldn’t agree more.

I know it’s somewhat silly to critisize software that old for having a crazy security hole, but one can only take so much 😉

Right now I’m looking at a dialog box caused by this fucker.

Windows NT 4.0 has been updated. Remove any disks from the floppy disk drives and choose OK to restart your computer.

Under which is a single button labled “OK”.

On a mail server that is also a file server and a web server. Be careful! Don’t accidentally hit that OK button!

Stupid.

Posts by platform by year, 1999–2026
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total	519	2286	3892	2387	132	16	38	569	2259	74	12172
1999	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7
2000	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10
2001	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0
2002	23	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23
2003	35	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	35
2004	85	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	85
2005	150	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	150
2006	83	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	83
2007	72	16	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	88
2008	33	546	169	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	748
2009	10	407	744	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1161
2010	6	195	352	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	556
2011	4	383	290	8	20	–	–	–	–	–	705
2012	–	372	254	124	19	16	1	–	–	–	786
2013	–	165	512	196	–	–	3	–	–	–	876
2014	–	73	670	270	–	–	–	6	–	–	1019
2015	–	74	889	554	–	–	11	2	–	–	1530
2016	–	55	12	389	1	–	3	–	–	–	460
2017	–	–	–	429	47	–	5	7	–	–	488
2018	–	–	–	414	45	–	–	7	123	–	589
2019	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	210	–	211
2020	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	2	452	–	457
2021	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	8	404	–	419
2022	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	422	–	427
2023	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	48	214	13	276
2024	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	167	205	33	405
2025	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	222	154	22	400
2026	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	96	75	6	178
total	519	2286	3892	2387	132	16	38	569	2259	74	12172