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OK I have to say this: reading some of the comments here makes me think I was actually friends with you back in 1998/1999 because that's about when I was doing this same shit in my high school computer lab. Small world.
Like so many others here this really helped me gain an interest in computers at a young age. It's sad to think that the shit most of us did as kids for fun and learning would land today's children in hot water. I lucked out in Jr High, after getting suspended for 'hacking the school computers' as the computer lab admin caught wind and really encouraged me to learn and provided me with a lot of hands on experience tha…
There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...
The most fun I had with Sub7 (or maybe it was Netbus?) was opening the CD-ROM drives of computers in the computer lab and watching people's reactions. Good times....
NetBus was the GREATEST Win95/98 remote admin/spying software outside BO.
Network scan? Don’t mind if I do. Huh. So many machines. Let’s see what windows they have open.
alt.sex.grannies (or whatever it was back in the day)
Fire off a message “NO. Turn that off. C’mon, man.”
Actually got a reply back.
“OK. I’m sorry.”
Do the title bar refresh and see it’s closed.
That was my favoritest random memory of NetBus in the wild.
Netbus and BO got me in so much trouble as a kid (though honestly I probably should have gotten in a lot more trouble). At school, all the windows machines were locked down with a "security" application called Fortress. I started selling boot floppies that would disable Fortress to teachers, and might have loaded a few of those up with the aforementioned toys. At home, I don't think I paid for internet access at all…
There were tons of windows 95/98 computers with network shares exposed to the internet with no or weak passwords. It was really convenient to get their stored password list.
Wow, so much memories! BO, Nervous, BitchSlap, mIRC scripts... I also remember the famous NetBios hack at this time. Easy to do, and you felt like a real hacker! Command lines instead of GUI! That was an incredible feeling and it later brought me to Linux.. and still on Linux (ok on Ubuntu, I'm a casu now :D)
I made a couple of plugins for this back in the day "butt plugs" heh I can't remember what they all did but I think one was sort of a proxy so that you could scan other networks with an already infected machine.
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My very first “school computer incident” was so innocent by comparison for most people. I was maybe 11 and I was learning about batch files and I made one named win.bat that printed “hello”. Well I’m sure most folks know what happened next time the computer rebooted …hello hello hello hello hello…and the computer teacher said I had installed a virus and tried to kick me out of school. Luckily I was only expelled from…
What an idiot computer teacher you had. They should have catalysed your desire to learn and discover more.
This story sort of relates to BO and/or possibly other backdoors. If anyone can help me understand the mystery of what happened to me back around 2001 I would be forever grateful: I believe I was in 4th or 5th grade and one night, I was playing Diablo 2 online with my cousin. My family was still using dial-up at the time so I was using one line to play and the other line to talk to my cousin on the phone. It was gett…
The message dialogue would have looked like Windows 95/98, with a reply option. BO was more extensible; ButtTrumpet would run and announce to the person who installed it that you had come online. Another BO plug-in allowed you to change how the message interface worked. My guess is someone saw your IP, and someone checked out your IP to find you open.
I’ll tell you, when I found someone who had open BO/NetBus, I would assign a password to their configuration so they weren’t open to anyone other than me. I have to imagine that hash was was easy to crack, but at the time, I thought it was a solid way to keep people from getting messed with by anyone other than me.
Some weird random anecdote about Back Orifice 2000 (BO2k) that nobody asked for: We were goofing around in high school with this. Putting it on computers in school and messing around. We sent it over to a classmate. Her father was teachter and we figured she might open it on their home PC. (we were 14 at the time, by the way). Anyway, we made a fake hotmail address in the name of another classmate. These two people d…
Kris?
Hi party people, this is Sir Dystic, author of the original 1998 Back Orifice. Great to hear all of you reminiscing about my software! One thing that I did not predict when I released BO: The distribution ZIP contained three files, a readme.txt, the BO server and the BO client. In retrospect, the BO server should probably not have been distributed with the original .EXE extension as a LARGE portion of people apparent…
Still got my cDc/l0pht/etc stickers on my old laptop and it led to my entire career. Thank you. I owe you many beers (or glasses of milk I guess).