[ale] Back Orifice

[Douglas Bridges]

The point that needs to be made is that for Back Orafice to take control of 
a machine, it needs to be run on that machine. You cannot start up the Back 
Orafice client on your machine and take over any Windows box. You can only 
take over Windows boxes that have installed the BO Server.

This means to use BO malicously, it must be installed using some sort of 
trojan horse. The trojan horse program would install BO silently, and then 
the "fun" would begin.

Doug Bridges
doug_bridges at hotmail.com


>From: naugrim at juno.com
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] Back Orifice
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:37:33 ric
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>	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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