Back Orifice 2000

This is one software that I always admired. Although as the name suggests, the software is pretty notorious, this is very impressive. Back Orifice 2000 was released in mid-1999 following the great success of the earlier version. Only to be downloaded on a scale unprecedented. Coders had been waiting for BO2k for quite some time. It is basically a remote-administration tool and does a damn good job of it. BO2k has also included some encryption features this time making the US version very secure. The other one is however using poor encryption techniques due to the US export restrictions. The new version is a lot more user friendly than the first. The server configuration utility is not graphical compared to the earlier command line one. But this software will be of more interest to programmers.

BO2k is a programmers delight, because it comes with the source code and the GNU license lets you modify it to suit your needs. I was quite astonished by the source code. It might be large,hundreds of files, but the code it very easy to understand and is a perfect text-book for Windows programmers. If you like using Win32, then I think you should download the source code and try it. Also for those of you who use MFC, this is a good oppurtunity to see what wonderful things you can do by using the raw Win32 API. But if you never used Win32 before, then you might need some getting used to the code.

Jeswin.P

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