[ale] Back Orifice

[Christopher S. Adams]

remember the windows 95 companion cd that had to be recalled because they
burned it with a virus on it? :)

Chris

----- Original Message -----
 From: Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
To: <naugrim at juno.com>
Cc: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Back Orifice


> naugrim at juno.com enscribed thusly:
> > 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.
>
> Don't know about that, but I do know that Microsoft got infected
> with Explore.Worm and it took them days to stomp it out.  I saw messages
> on security mailing lists from several companies that got infected FROM
> MICROSOFT.  It seems that they were expecting some documents from
> Microsoft anyways, so they thought nothing of it when they received
> some documents for review.  :-)  BANG!
>
> Now, if someone had launched BO 2000 that way, instead of that
> nasty destructive pest, there would have been real fun in Redmond.  :-)
>
> Mike
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