is IIS 5.0 safe?

From: David Neff (neffda77_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:18:33 -0500

At work I use IIS to develop .Net applications and wanted to install it on
my home Windows XP Pro machine to do some work from home. I'm concerned
that I'm potentially opening up my home pc to who know what kinds of
attacks. I have a software firewall, but I don't trust that it is enough.
Is there a way to configure IIS to make it only work on the machine its
installed on in a localhost type mode or something. I basically want to cut
it off from the outside world.

Thanks!

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