Masking server type for IIS 5.0

From: Barney Delaney (barnaby.delaney@schwab-europe.com)
Date: 07/10/02 

From: "Barney Delaney" <barnaby.delaney@schwab-europe.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:04:47 -0700

Could somebody please advise where i might find
information to mask the Operating System and Web Server
type being displayed when externally scanning against IIS
5.0.

Alternately, if anybody has a fix for this, please share
the info!

Thanks in advance,

Barney Delaney

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