A website named administration - is it an intrusion?

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Hi,

I got a win2003 server runing IIS6 hosting a dozen of friends websites, for private use only.

Just note that there is an 'website' called 'administration' appeared in the IIS service without my knowledge. It uses TCP port 8099, does not assign IP address and SSL port 8098 and having the main directory pointing to:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\serverappliance\web\admin\tsweb

and inside that directory there is a type 'cab' file: msrdp.cab

Am I right to think, whoever adding such entry in the website table is to enable him to run the program remotely somehow?

Anyone has experience on this? Other than stop it, what would be the best solution. The server has McAfee but it did not see any virus in that directory therefore I assume it is more a spyware than virus?

Or could it be just MS legimate stuff that I just did not see it before? The word "administ....' can easily fool the eyes of the in-experienced!

rgds,
kfl.

Posted 18-Nov-10 16:29pm

KFLee

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Rod Kemp · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-20T20:17:00

It's not an intrusion, it is created by default to enable administration of the web server via a browser. You can access it by entering https://[SERVERNAME]:8098, you will need a SSL certificate which can be a self signed[^] one created using SelfSSL, installed on the server, at which point it will ask you for a valid user account on the server.

If you don't use it or don't want to use it you can just stop that particular web site.