Mar 31, 2003 : March 2003 Netcraft Survey Released

📅 March 31, 2003 - Internet research organization Netcraft (netcraft.com) announced on Friday that it has released the results of its March 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey, highlighting several matters of significance to users of the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.

According to Netcraft, March 2003 marked the month that the Windows 2000 platform passed the one million IP mark for the first time. Including sites running NT4 and Windows 2003, there are currently slightly more than 1.5 million Intenret Web sites running a Microsoft operating system.
And, as reported earlier in the month, Microsoft issued a security alert on March 17th regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on Windows 2000 machines. The flaw is triggered by the IIS 5.0 implementation of the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, and is limited to IIS 5.0.
Netcraft's survey results indicated that IIS 5.0 runs about 9 million Web sites on just over 1 million IP addresses, making it the most widely deployed Web server that has WebDAV enabled by default. Though many sites have disabled WebDAV, says Netcraft, approximately three quarters of Microsoft IIS 5.0 servers have WebDAV enabled, suggesting that at the time of the announcement, there were approximately 6 million vulnerable Web sites.

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