[mtnGoat]

I do not believe there was a RAT installed, I think that was just some not entirely true bragging you heard. rather it was ints(internals) that were in on the game and/or tunnels. Merlin lived inside a LAN, to get to it you’d need to break an SSID account which was always a clever trick. Same trick, 20 years later, can still be used to this day to bypass every MFA mechanism I know presently(aws, BofA, etc), if you are smart. The other option was to install a rat(sub7 was a good one) on an employees home machine and then tunnel through it to AOL when they were logged in with an ssid. Which then allowed you to invoke the forms you needed to do things that normally only employees could do. You ever wondered why so many l33ts were from Virginia? They were using mom and dads int accounts when they weren’t looking to lookup account info, then have a friend call in to reset the passwords. Installing a PWS on one of those home PCs was priceless, as you always have the employees password.

Ah, the good old days.