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If anyone can remind me of the name of this software used to lock down windows 98 machines I'd appreciate it. It was IBM I think. Blue background for student. Green for teacher. Red for admin.

I learned how to bypass it and discovered winpopup. I messaged every computer in the school district with my account like an idiot 9th grader. I then learned a lot about getting caught, punished, and second chances. I was lucky that the powers that be didn't overblow what I did.




That was called various names, winnuke being one of them. It was nothing but a manually crafted TCP or UDP packet causing winsock to segfault.




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