We all had fun at work yesterday. Our main web server is IIS and anyone who has installed this will know that it will put on a default ftp site on to it. Now the muppets that go by the name of my company's hardware team just left it running without doing anything about it. Yesterday i had a quite moment, so I decided to clean up the web server. I came to the main data drive and was intriguied to why we only has 2GB left on a twenty gig drive. So there's me looking at the properties of each folder trying to work out where all this space has gone every thing was fine until I got to the Inetpub folder (main folder for IIS) and it was showing that it had 15gb woth of data in their. We've got quite a few hefty web sites in their but nothing that would take up 15gb worth of stuff. So I start going into each of the folders trying to find where it all is and come to the ftp folder. Some hacker group had found out that we have an unprotected ftp service and had started using our server as a download source for cracked movies. There was about 40 - 50 movies sitting there from house on the haunted hill to x-men the movie. So I have probably just pissed of some people as I deleted them all and shut down the ftp service.

it definatley wasn't my average day yesterday

Ian