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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by spacemanmatt on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @12:23PM (#14646804)
I sent my first packet-of-death to an unprotected Windows machine in 1996, so...
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by partisan on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:55PM (#14647620)
I used an IRC client called BootFucker Pro back then that had all of the weaponry built in. Those were the good old days.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by samstave on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:01PM (#14647104)
1997 here :-)

hat was that XP xploit app from back then... I cant recall what it was called...

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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by KGIII on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:34PM (#14647433)
To be clear XP wasn't available in 1997.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by samstave on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:55PM (#14647621)
Might have been 98/99, can't recall... I started at that company in 97

But it was back orifice I was thinking of.

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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by KGIII on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:18PM (#14647820)
XP was August of 2001, if you're curious.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by samstave on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:25PM (#14647894)
Holy crap... then it was win 95 I was using back orifice against...
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by dredmorbius on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:29AM (#14652989)
WinNT 4.0.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0

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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by pferde on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:15PM (#14648968)
Winnuke? That was way before XP, though, I remember it crashed windows 95 and 98 first edition.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by colecut on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:07PM (#14647167)
back orifice? subseven?
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by freeflight on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:35PM (#14647440)
Subseven was just a trojan, tho a really fancy one I had lots of fun with as a kid.
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by samstave on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:56PM (#14647627)
Back orifice!
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by jbergstroem on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:38PM (#14647465)
teardrop?
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by spacemanmatt on Sunday July 02, 2017 @12:55PM (#14683247)
landattack
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by rhizome on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:24PM (#14647333)
redbutton?
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