Appropriate security safeguards on your Web server can help reduce or eliminate various security threats. These threats can come from malicious users as well as from well-intentioned users who accidentally gain access to restricted information or inadvertently alter important files. Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 provides the elements for a secure IIS solution, including a new approach to server configuration that emphasizes installing only the services that you know you will run on your server.

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