'Back Orifice': Much ado about nothing?

After a more careful reading of the CDC Web site, thanks to the urging ofseveral readers, I must say I'm a little less worried about the "Back Orifice" hacking tool. It seems this tool is targeted solely at Windows 95and 98 machines, not NT, making it far less worrisome: The security featuresin Windows 9x are notoriously pathetic, so I'm not all that sure that thistool is the black plague we might have feared. As the text on its Web site(poorly) reads:

"Back Orifice is a remote administration system which allows a user to control a computer across a [TCP/IP] connection using a simple console or[GUI] application. On a local [LAN] or across the [Internet], Back Orificegives its user more control of the remote Windows machine than the personat the keyboard."

In any event, it's probably common knowledge that Windows 95 and 98 aren'texactly secure, but I also believe that system administrators will want tocheck out this admittedly devious tool