> the virus
At risk of being a pendant, BO wasn't self-replicating so it isn't a "virus" - it was just a trojan/backdoor utility.
At risk of being a pendant, BO wasn't self-replicating so it isn't a "virus" - it was just a trojan/backdoor utility.
BO was a virus as much as an OpenSSH server is a virus. It actually provided some pretty useful remote administration tools that weren't available for consumer versions of Windows until Windows NT became the standard.