was anyone on IRC when the floodgates opened?
 

literally!

i remember back then, about 2yrs or so?

all you needed was the ability to write a proxy scanner that basically checked ppl when they joined a channel, to see if you can connect to the port 80 and a few others, and write that proxy along with thousands of others into a txt file.

then you write a function that connects to that port, loads a mirc bot, and makes them carry out your commands! loop through this function and you have thousands of bots waiting for your command!

With the power to literally drop anyone, or any channel that we wanted ... we were like gods on there!!

if someone accidentally kicked you from a channel, you can expect to recieve a sincere apology msg, or else that was war!

then came the floods of the botnets, mostly using a bot named GT (global threat). Basically this was more of a virus, where you make the victim run a .exe file, then it opens a hidden mirc on their pc and the invisible bot would come to the predetermined server/channel and await your commands.

I remember those bot wars were fucking vicious! Since you could not hide your IP easily back then, all it took was a simple command and you could send someone offline for a week.

then like everything, it became oversaturated. Everyone and their mom had a botnet and was bringing too much heat onto the whole scene. Soon dalnet banned all open proxies, and sent out a team of people to find and report these botnets, since it was a criminal offense to compromise a host.

I heard stories of friends that actually took these botnets, and made them download a .exe for a dialer. they said the dialer wouldnt be hidden, so the ppl would see it open and run, but when your doing it to 40k bots at a time, chances are that someone is not looking i guess, lol

Anyhow, sorry for the long rant, just felt like rambling on about another useless topic.

i wonder if its possible to scan for http proxies as well? i have my old scanners around, i bet i can modify them if possible, but i dunno.

:glugglug

Yawn....

:1orglaugh

My day wouldn't be complete without you Lil2Rich...

:thumbsup

That didn't start two years ago. It was going strong in 1994.

Nerds

was it that long ago? sheesh

were you on there? remember any of the big names?

Blank_
Death`
chr0nix

anyone else? been so frigin long i dont remember them lol

What about
d00mb0t
xxm0rph3usxx

i used to know a morpheus, was that you? i dont remember how he spelled it.

i remember him in #movies2go

:/

yeah this is straight back to 94, but i was on undernet, not dalnet ;P

Hahaha no. I am just teasing.

I just laugh at all the "hackers" who have names that MUST have numbers in them, or look absolutely retarded.

Like:
c00lh4X0r[l33t]

Or something.


http://www.pretense.net/jcrich.jpg

same thing on AOL lol

i think teen girls like the l33t writing too, i always see them like XxbunnyxX or some shit

lot of MiXeD CaSe teen girl and 31337 h4x0r :P
but you ask them what is nmap and they know nothing :P

i emember being on aol and doing basically the same thing only with vb written viruses that controlled peoples computers. .mailbomb [email protected] - great command. .deltree - funny command. then after doing that with vb written aol codes came sub7.

Yep - exactly.

... mIRKfORCE was the shit ;). Fire up 2-3k clones .. You created serversplits with thoose.

Or you could just excess anyones recv buffer (not the classic send buffer as when the victim replies to ctcp floods).

Or if one of the clones got +o, that chan was so fucked in ~2 secs.

lil2rich4u2 .. about modifying your old proxyscanner ircii (mIRC?) scripts I sound easier to just download a scanner that's built for the job of masscanning. Maybe do a mass pre-scan with a fast synscanner to just find open proxyports and then test them for anon axx with another script/program.

Could prob. get you kicked from your ISP though =).