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Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by anhanhanh »

Back in the good old days we were sending this to random ICQ users saying something like "hey I'm a game developer and made this game, would you like to try it?". I'm not very proud of that tbh.

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Post by mikeodds »

I’d bet there’s more than a few people here in respectable places now that learnt to code through VB6, Delphi, python, Perl, PHP to write rats and exploit code.

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Post by nurettin »

mikeodds wrote: post #3

I’d bet there’s more than a few people here in respectable places now that learnt to code through VB6, Delphi, python, Perl, PHP to write rats and exploit code.

it was mainly delphi7, because the executables didn't require suspicious dll dependencies. If you statically linked midaslib, msvcrt was all you needed.

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Post by peejfancher »

I used to use this tool to mess with my college computer class professor. Me and a buddy installed it on the teachers computer that she used to instruct the class. We did mostly innocent stuff like closing windows or messing with the browser a bit. Occasionally we would reboot her computer when it was close to the end of class and we didn’t want to start something new. We’re both still coders to this day.

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Post by S_A_P »

Wrote about this as a college senior for my computer security class. Spent a day or two in the TAMU computer lab with that site prominently displayed… that was 22 years ago. I did set up 2 computers to demo how this worked as part of the presentation but never went much further than that. I seem to remember my report including hypothetical ways to use a tool I think was called silkworm or silk wrapper to disguise this as something else for distribution. Time flies.
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