Back Orifice (1998) • Hacker News Board

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by christkv » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

Oh man brings back so many memories of messing with friends. There was even a doom version that modeled monsters after system processes allowing you to shoot and kill the processes and watch them die

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by brassattax » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

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.

tcl scripting for eggdrop bots too :)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by pixl97 » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

mobilio wrote: post #17

I still remember it because was one of first RAT available.

There was another called something like netbus right after this from what I remember.

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by Grazester » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

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.

Yep in highschool it was all VB6 and back orfice shenanigans

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by shoelessone » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

Was Girlfriend similar to this?

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by brassattax » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:06 PM UTC

My University had public, non-firewalled IP addresses in the dorms... all one had to do was scan the IP ranges for the default port for Back Orifice to have some fun. (The good old days)

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by Lapsa » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

oh I remember this one. opening CD tray remotely

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by anonu » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

jdalgetty wrote: post #16

Oh boy! We used to have a lot of fun with this back in high school!

Same. Nowadays kids get expelled for this!

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by washadjeffmad » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

The BO payload was so large that it was hard to inject or distribute without pretty obviously being suspicious.

A friend developed Fraggle Lite in ASM with separate versions for the network adapter, which became the world's smallest RAT for a while. I never found the Easter egg, but I do remember the original password for our hardcoded users. I wonder if I still have them somewhere...

Re: Back Orifice (1998)

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Post by theshadowknows » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:17 PM UTC

Mannnnn the nostalgia. I loved programs like this and Sub7c my favorite was DivineIntervention 3 I just liked the interface and thought the name was cool lol. I’d love to see what all the devs of these things are up to today. Pri$m, if you’re out there let it be known that your work on DI3 is what got me into programming!