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To: ericneu who wrote (9957)	8/5/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	of 74651

Back Orifice Released Tuesday, August 4th, 2:07 PM EDT "An anonymous reader downloaded the infamous Windows super-hack, Back Orifice, and had this to share about his tests of the tool: I downloaded BO this morning. I then propagated the Server to a test machine. I ran the GUI on my machine and was able to do all sorts of nasty things to the test machine, including grabbing keystrokes and password information from the server. You can add/delete directories, copy files from your machine to the server machine and add/delete files. And all sorts of network shennaigans like redirecting TCP/IP traffic and finding out what else is on the network. In other words, the hype is real. This is one potent and extremely dangerous program, and I don't see MS coming out with a fix any time soon. It only works on Windows 9x computers. ..." As reported in Mac OS News Hal PS:It does not expose any new security holes. Microsoft does not care. They have no competition. HR

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