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Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by devin »

tscherno wrote: post #4

There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...

I remember packing jpegs with sub7 payloads and sending to my friends on AIM. The opening and closing on the CD tray is such a classic prank. Best part was that given I was usually the guy my friends and their parents called to fix their computer trouble, I was getting IMs from all of them saying “my cd tray keeps opening and closing”. The reveal of the prank was great except for when I must have done it for like 3 hours while my friend’s mom was using the family computer. She wasn’t very happy with me.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by slim »

richarme wrote: post #124
anhanhanh wrote: post #2

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.

What you could do was embedding the BO exe inside another exe disguised as a jpg picture. When executed it would extract and run BO in the background and also display a jpg. ICQ conveniently didn't display the end of long filenames, so you could send it as "xyz.jpg[20spaces].exe" and it would seem like you just shared a picture. Worked like a charm the one time I tested this technique on an unsuspecting friend during…

Or use silkrope to bundle it with any other .exe

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by squarefoot »

api wrote: post #91
neals wrote: post #73

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…

I’m a bit older and when I was about 14 or 15 I got into assembly language DOS virus writing. This was in 1992 and 1993. It’s actually how I learned x86 ASM. I was involved with an old school hacking (sense 2) group called Phalcon/Skism. Did other fun stuff like “wardialing” with a program called ToneLoc. Anyway I wrote some viruses and dropped them in my high school computer lab. Several ended up getting loose on th…

Upvoted. Whoever downvoted you has likely never attended certain universities, and clearly has never been in the military. Doing things that are wrong and fun while still being harmless requires creativity.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by k__ »

hestefisk wrote: post #34
jdmoreira wrote: post #11

This brings me many good memories of my script kiddie humble beginnings. It all started with backoriffice and mIrc and slowly it evolved to me wanting to run bitchX and eventually getting into linux. It probably took me an year to go from being a windows user to exclusively run Slackware and poring over Phrack :)

Very much exactly my story! I also did mIRC scripting :)

I started programming with mIRC scripts too.

I fondly remember writing an anime news bot, that scraped a anime news site and spammed it into one of my channels.

I didn't know what HTTP, HTML, loops, or even arrays where. I copy-pasted everything from countless sources I found.

Good times.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by rojeee »

I installed this on a bunch of school computers when I was 15 only to open and close the CD-ROM bays to freak out the teachers. This was the golden days of computing!

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by _vzen »

cpach wrote: post #7
tscherno wrote: post #4

There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...

And NetBus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBus

A former "friend" of mine in high school deleted my documents including due school work with netbus or BO (don't remember which one). It really was a shitty thing to do and he was proud of it that I lost weeks of work.

I got revenge couple of months later with a "screensaver" that I've made in Delphi. In reality it would just "crash" with some random error, but actually copy itself on multiple places on the hard drive with windows sounding names, run both as a service and some innocent sounding files etc. It wouldn't show up in task manager. I could send and execute whatever commands I liked. I've deleted his Diablo saves a week later or so, and man he was livid as he wasted months playing. He had no idea what happened as he had two AV programs installed and he was confident it would detect a trojan.

Windows security at that period of time really was a contradiction in terms.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by titoasty »

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)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by short_sells_poo »

tylerscott wrote: post #95
api wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m a bit older and when I was about 14 or 15 I got into assembly language DOS virus writing. This was in 1992 and 1993. It’s actually how I learned x86 ASM. I was involved with an old school hacking (sense 2) group called Phalcon/Skism. Did other fun stuff like “wardialing” with a program called ToneLoc. Anyway I wrote some viruses and dropped them in my high school computer lab. Several ended up getting loose on th…

This reminds me of when I first discovered the Win32 API and used it to write some silly annoying apps in Borland C++ Builder. This was around 1998 and the worst I ever came up with was a persistent pop up that was difficult to remove due to some registry obfuscation. It had a single button that would open the CDROM tray. I put it on every computer in the lab. Good times. You’re right—it used to be playful to hack ar…

We played a lot of counter strike during my uni days and at one point I created a prank program that disguised itself as system.exe and listened for mouse movement. It would then inject random but smooth error into the mouse movement. I installed it on a friend's PC and it drove him to white hot rage. I think he destroyed a couple of mice before I owned up and bought him a new high end Logitech laser mouse (which was a novel thing at the time).

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

titoasty wrote: post #137

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)

NetBios… still out there giving gifts. We had a pen test a couple years ago and the hackers were easily able to get NetBios to use some old legacy feature to request user hashes. From there just load them into a GPU heavy cracker and 50% of our company user passwords in a few hours.

The IT company at the time had no idea they shouldn’t enable netbios unless it was actually required for something.

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