[ale] Back Orifice

[Christopher S. Adams]

when the script kiddies known as cult of the dead cow released back orifice
initially, it didn't work on nt.  but now that they have written back
orifice 2k, the only protection is to install Linux/BSD/BeOS/anything :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: <naugrim at juno.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 12:37 PM
Subject: [ale] Back Orifice


> I'm a little curious about something. I have heard that the Back
> Orifice
> program can take control of /any/ Win95/98/NT box. Doesn't Microsoft
> itself run NT servers? Has anyone ever tried Back Orifice on it? I don't
> plan on trying because they would trace it, but I was wondering if there
> are any known cases of it and what Microsoft's reaction was.
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