Windows Process Activation Service (also known as WAS) is the process activation mechanism introduced within Internet Information Services v7.0.
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In the past, an adversary using the Unicode character could encode attack packets that an IDS would not recognize but that an IIS web server would decode and become attacked.
It is still found in IIS and in the Windows operating system libraries, although in Windows Server 2003 it is disabled by default.