NetBus v.1.52
Copyright 1998 © Carl-Fredrik Neikter
All Rights Reserved

Description
With NetBus you fool around your friends across your local network, or even over the global internet! The purpose of this program is just to have fun, and not to systematic irritate people.

Installation
NetBus consists of a server and a client-part. The server-part is the program which must exists on the person’s computer that you want to have fun with. The client-part is your little, nice program that "controls" the target computer!

1. Put the server-part, SysEdit.exe (cover-name!) and KeyHook.dll, on the target computer. Preferably in the WINDOWS-directory or similar.
2. Make SysEdit start every time Windows start or someone is logging in. The easiest way to accomplish this is to start SysEdit with the parameter /add. The parameter /remove removes this link from the registry.
3. Put the client-part, NetBus, on your computer.
4. Start NetBus and choose which hostname (IP-number) you wish to connect to! If SysEdit is running on the target computer the game may begin. Let’s have fun!

Note that you don’t see SysEdit when it’s running – it’s hiding itself automatically at start-up!

TCP/IP is the protocol that NetBus and SysEdit is using. That is, you address someone with host-names or IP-numbers. NetBus will connect you to someone with the Connect button.

Functions

• Open/close the CD-ROM once.
• Open/close the CD-ROM in intervals, the time interval is set in seconds.
• Show optional image. The image must exist in the same directory as SysEdit. The supported image-formats is BMP and JPG.
• Swap mouse buttons – the right mouse button gets the left mouse button’s functions and vice versa.
• Start optional application.
• Play optional sound-file. The sound-file must exist in the same directory as SysEdit. The supported sound-format is WAV.
• Point the mouse to optional coordinates. You can even navigate the mouse on the target computer with your own!
• Show a message or question on the screen. Sentence that ends with "?" gives a question, and a sentence that starts with "?" gives a dialog-box that the user can give his "answer" in. The answer is always sent back to you!
• Shutdown the system, logoff the user etc.
• Go to an optional URL within a web-browser.
• Send keystrokes to the active application on the target computer! The text in the field "Message/text" will be inserted in the application that has focus. ("|" represents enter).
• Listen for keystrokes and send them back to you!
• Get a screendump! (should not be used over slow connections)
• Return information about the target computer.
• Upload any file from you to the target computer! With this feature it will be possible to remotely update SysEdit with a new version.
• Increase and decrease the sound-volume.
• Record sounds that the microphone catch. The sound is sent back to you!
• Make click sounds every time a key is pressed!
• Download any file from the target. Before you start to download you can select files in a nice view that represents the harddisks on the target!

The functions above (there are some logical exceptions) can be delayed an optional number of seconds before they are executing.

Connecting
The connect button has one very nice feature. It can scan IP-numbers for a NetBus computer. As soon as it connect to someone it will stop. The syntax for IP-scanning is xx.xx.xx.xx+xx, e.g. 127.0.0.1+15 will scan all IP-numbers in the range 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.0.16.

Password protection
If you just want to have fun with your friend’s computer yourself, and don’t want someone else to connect to it you can password protect it. To accomplish this you start SysEdit with the parameter /pass:thepassword.

Now everybody will fail when trying to connect or sending commands to that computer. Of course you don’t want to fail. To fix this you do the following:

1. Start RegEdit and lookup HKEY_CURRENT_USER\NetBus\Settings.
2. Add a string-value and let it be named ClientPwd.
3. Finally, let the string-value contain the password for the protected computer.

Hint
You should perhaps test the functions in NetBus against yourself before you start fooling with your friends, so you know what’s happening (send text will, however, not work on yourself)! Your own machine can be addressed with "localhost".

Systemdemands
Windows 95, Windows NT or later versions of Windows.

Author
You contact me by sending an e-mail to cf@ludd.luth.se. You’re encouraged telling me how fun you have had!