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Our target was Visual Basic 3. You could start it through Microsoft Access, which somehow let you execute arbitrary commands.
by afandian 6y ago
Our target was Visual Basic 3. You could start it through Microsoft Access, which somehow let you execute arbitrary commands.
- neltnerb 6y agoDon't forget hypercard, that let us run whatever we wanted on Macs. On windows though, we discovered that if you use the save or open dialogs you can just browse wherever, right click, and run the exe. It sounds like that was a bit before your time, security was even more laughable then. Oddly, the network was set up perfectly, at least according to the standards of the time.