Back Orifice (1998)

Post by creamyhorror » Mon, Sep 06, 2021, 6:09 AM UTC

s_d wrote: post #181

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…

Post by randombits0 » Mon, Sep 06, 2021, 3:42 PM UTC

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…

Post by robbywashere_ » Mon, Sep 06, 2021, 7:11 PM UTC

tscherno wrote: post #4

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

Post by _e4c8 » Mon, Sep 06, 2021, 7:16 PM UTC

ctf1er wrote: post #164

tscherno wrote: post #4

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

Sub7 was a lot of fun. So many options. I will add to the computer lab anecdotes. I gave this to my buddies at school who were in the same crew(we mostly made VB 'proggies' for AOL,) but of course two of them install it in the library computer lab. I told them it's not illegal to have but is to use. They mess with students even doing things like deleting essays being written. The IT people figure it out and my buddie…

Post by j0eblow » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 1:17 AM UTC

adriancr wrote: post #222

j0eblow wrote: post #153

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…

There were a lot of trojans with chat like that. An even nicer chat was with The Matrix green letters behind it or just plain black/green. The most common way to get infected is running infected applications. As for your webcam, did it not have a light when on? Also, very likely it was your cousin or someone you know.