Back Orifice (1998)

Re:Back Orifice (1998) by mikeodds on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:35AM (#28414517)

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.

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by Grazester on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:05AM (#28414736)

Yep in highschool it was all VB6 and back orfice shenanigans

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by nurettin on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:46AM (#28414574)

it was mainly delphi7, because the executables didn't require suspicious dll dependencies. If you statically linked midaslib, msvcrt was all you needed.

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by gatorcode on Saturday September 04, 2021 @08:53AM (#28414637)

Ahh the good old days. Learned to program with VB6 writing progz for AOL.

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by brassattax on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:04AM (#28414729)

tcl scripting for eggdrop bots too :)

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by theshadowknows on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:24AM (#28414867)

A “fell off the truck” version of Delphi :)

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Re:Back Orifice (1998) by mkr-hn on Saturday September 04, 2021 @12:47PM (#28416637)

Marco Arment (Overcast, Instapaper, Tumblr) on AOL proggies, most of which were built on popular VB6 libraries made for that purpose: http://articles.marco.org/44

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