# What is this program? "ziOx," etc.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-program-ziox-etc/336402>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 20, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-program-ziox-etc/336402 "2005-12-20T03:29:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-program-ziox-etc/336402/1 "2005-12-20T03:29:30Z")

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Another forum has been hacked with ziOxbb shell code, ziOx, ziOx.exe, and rotten.exe.

Running these results in loss of Mozilla-Firefox. Have to run IE and reload Mozilla.  
Has anyone ecountered these hacks?

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**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-program-ziox-etc/336402/2 "2005-12-30T02:30:29Z")

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It appears to be the name of the perpetrator. [link](http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/655340/Main/654044/)