MS Proxy Server

Sometimes, things work perfectly - and in doing so, they appear to have failed totally. Re/max's proxy server is today's example of this: it came under attack from a kiddie in Asia today, and the log files filled up with details of his attempts to get in. Filled up = several hundreds megabytes of data, enough to fill the partition. At this point, MS Proxy Server did what it is supposed to: it failed safe, and decided to deny every piece of data it didn't have an explicit 'approve' filter for (I could still administer it remotely). In failing safe, the SMTP Server, Web Service and Winsock Proxy Service all stopped (cleanly - nice!).

Now, for the end-user, this appears to suck: they can no longer access the Internet. From the point of view of keeping things safe, this is exactly what you want: the hacker gave up and went home, and restoring service was just a matter of moving the logfiles to a different server. Score one for Microsoft!
Mood: geeky
Music: None, I'm at work