I've found the following entries in my IIS log. The log format is the first
line
Are both attacks?

c-ip s-port cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status cs(User-Agent)
------------------------------------------------------------------
70.49.90.233 80 OPTIONS / 200 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600
196.25.174.252 80 GET /scripts/..%5c%5c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe 500

RE: What are these entries? by v-wzhang

v-wzhang
Fri May 27 02:39:20 CDT 2005

Hi Joe,

At least the 2nd request is. The first one is a webdav command to
query which verbs are accepted on the web site. So if your site
doesn't have webdav(web folder) enabled, it's most likely another
attack attempt.

Use UrlScan can help on blocking this kind of requests.

Using URLScan on IIS
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307608

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.


Re: What are these entries? by Sparky

Sparky
Fri May 27 08:20:38 CDT 2005


""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" <v-wzhang@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:tUNH%238oYFHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hi Joe,
>
> At least the 2nd request is. The first one is a webdav command to
> query which verbs are accepted on the web site. So if your site
> doesn't have webdav(web folder) enabled, it's most likely another
> attack attempt.
>
> Use UrlScan can help on blocking this kind of requests.
>
> Using URLScan on IIS
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307608
>
> Best regards,
>
> WenJun Zhang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>

The first one is part of normal FrontPage activity. It could be someone
editing with FrontPage, or it could be someone opening the site to look at
it with FrontPage. Not worth thinking about in either case.