MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET Comments and Corrections

This article contains comments, corrections, and information about known errors relating to the Microsoft Press book MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET, 0-7356-2121-7.

The following topics are covered:

• Page 1-26: Incorrect version of IIS referenced

Page 1-26: Incorrect version of IIS referenced

On page 1-26, in the first sentence of the "Real World" box it reads:

"If IIS 4.0 had followed the secure by default principle, the Index Server ISAPI extension would not have been installed on the vast majority of those systems, and the costs associated with the CodeRed worm would have been minimal."

It should read:

"If IIS 5.0 had followed the secure by defaultprinciple, the Index Server ISAPI extension would not have been installed on the vast majority of those systems, and the costs associated with the CodeRed worm would have been minimal."

In the first sentence of the second paragraph it reads:

"You can learn from the mistakes made with IIS 4.0, or you can follow the example set by IIS 6.0 (included with Windows Server 2003)."

It should read:

"You can learn from the mistakes made with IIS 5.0, or you can follow the example set by IIS 6.0 (included with Windows Server 2003)."

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