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
All hail Netbus. It was so much fun. Those were good times. Pranking and harmless fun.
Back Orifice (1998)
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Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#32Glad to see I was not the only script kiddie here, haha. I used them all: bo, netbus, sub7... To be honest back in my days it was not as fun to hack somebody, digital cameras were expensive as heck back then, people had just a few pictures on their computers which they usually scanned, no webcams... It took me a week to infect this girl I had a crush on, when I finally did all I found on her computer was a bunch of mp3s. Well, at least I learned her music taste. Not everyone had a computer back then. It was not cannon as it is today.
Soon after I wrote my first chat in Java, that use the same principles of client and server. The server would even work with telnet. Fun times indeed.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#33I installed Netbus on the public computers at my local community library. They ran Windows 98 and were connected directly to the internet via a T1 / frame relay connection with a public IP for each machine, no firewall. So I could sit at home and keylog people’s Hotmail passwords. Those were the days ….
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#34This 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 :)
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#35People may not remember but the name was a pun on "BackOffice" which was a Microsoft product at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_BackOffice_Server
Back Orifice was basically a rootkit avant la lettre.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#36I ran some training labs full of desktop PCs around the time that BO was released and it was a fantastic tool. It was free and offered a wide range of features for remote administration that win95/98 didn’t have. I could power cycle, re-image, push install .exes, control user accounts, etc all with a free tool. With BO I had complete control of all systems in the lab at a time where that sort of tooling for “legit” uses was prohibitively expensive.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#37Glad to see I was not the only script kiddie here, haha. I used them all: bo, netbus, sub7... To be honest back in my days it was not as fun to hack somebody, digital cameras were expensive as heck back then, people had just a few pictures on their computers which they usually scanned, no webcams... It took me a week to infect this girl I had a crush on, when I finally did all I found on her computer was a bunch of m…
You think it's fun to stalk women?
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#38I’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.
A “fell off the truck” version of Delphi :)
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#39There is also Sub7 from the same period: https://web.archive.org/web/20050401072114/http://www.hackpr...
Sub7 was hilarious with all of it's UI features like custom skins.
Re: Back Orifice (1998)
#40Oh 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
My experience with BO:
Me: "I bet I can guess your password..." I said to a close friend.
Him: "No way. $50 says you can't".
Another friend: "Stupid bet".
Me: "eatme8"
Him: , turning red with rage.
Another friend: "Holy shit".
Needless to say my late 20's were a lot of fun, very little of which I could do now without serious repercussions.