IIS (on SBS 2k) default website stopped 'address already in use'

Hi All

Hope someone out there can help me,as I am no tech guru!

I manage a small SBS network (1 server, 12 workstations) it all works very
well and in general is easy to manage. However, a couple of months ago on
the regular reboot (and on every reboots since), the default website failed
to start and when I tried to restart it I got the message 'address already
in use'. The default website will start if I change the port from 80 to 81,
but that is no use for my AV (which were installed over port 80 and hence
configured that way!) clients which I am having to manually update at the
moment!

I have scanned everything with 3 varieties of AV software and countless
spyware detectors and according to all that it is clean of virii and
spyware. Could something else be 'getting first dibs' on port 80 leaving
poor old IIS out in the cold?

The only change to the network at about the same time, was in the internet
connection and hardware firewall. I went from a two-way satellite set up
with firewall and sattelite modem to ADSL with a Netgear prosafe firewall
and d-link dsl-300T adsl modem, could this be causing the problem?

I have not been able to find any MS KB articles to cover this, but maybe I'm
just not asking for the right thing!

looking forward to your replies

Justin
(thecheeseguru)


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