How To Block logging of 405's to Event Log?

Question

I've got a webserver accessible to the outside world that comes under constant vulnerability scans, many of which involve accessing .exe filetypes.
When any of these scans are made, not a 404, but a 405 error message is generated.
Each 405 is stored in the event log, clogging up the eventlog and making it difficult to search for useful information.
Is there any way to block 405 error messages from being put into the event log or perhaps a way to force a 404 error message in such cases?
I do use some CGIs so altering .exe in mime.types won't do. I'm running win2k adv. server.
-R

Answer 1

The customary way to force the server to return a 404 for an arbitrary resource is to use the deny-existence SAF. However, deny-existence will itself log a message each time a "denied" resource is requested, so this probably isn't what you want.
Fortunately, there are numerous ways to address the issue. One possibility is redirecting accesses to these resources elsewhere, e.g. to your web site's front page. The following 3 lines could be added to the end of obj.conf to redirect requests for URIs that end in "/system32/cmd.exe":
<Object ppath="*/system32/cmd.exe">
NameTrans fn="redirect" from="/" url="/"
</Object>