RE: avoiding detection by netcraft site

["Dan Denton" <ddenton () remitpro com>]

Netcraft works (at least in part) by parsing out the signatures supplied by
your web server. If you don't want them to recognize your OS/Server, look
into removing or modifying how your web server displays it's banner. In
apache it's by the ServerSignature and ServerTokens directives.

It's worth noting though that netcraft will continue to cache it's last
reading on your banner.

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of J5
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 10:26 AM
To: Marc-André Laverdière
Cc: juanbabi () yahoo com; security basics
Subject: Re: avoiding detection by netcraft site

Hmm.  If it is netcraft in particular you are worried about, how about
asking them to remove you from the list?  Or block their IPs?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Marc-André Laverdière
<marcandre.laverdiere () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is old stuff, so I don't know if it still works... but AnonymOs
> was meant to give a Windows XP fingerprint even though it is an
> OpenBSD system. Have a look:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonym.OS
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Juan B <juanbabi () yahoo com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Netcraft.com is a site which can tell which OS I am runing on my web
site.
> > is there a way to get to configure the site that netcraft wont detect the
OS or detect a wrong version?
> > thanks !
> >
> > Juan
>
>
>
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