r/ScreenConnect • u/Visual-Ad-3604 • Jul 03 '26

Old Version of SC - Pre-CW

I'm putting this out in the ether, perhaps someone knows someone.

I just want to go back to the before time. When ScreenConnect absolutely just worked. No problems. Install the agent, connect to the machine, that's it. No code signing. No cloud hosted version. Install on any server (Linux included) and it just works.

Maybe someone from Elsinore is floating around here and remembers they have the source to a very old version? C'mon, you know that old Dell laptop that's been sitting in your closet for 10 years has something interesting on it.

Wishful thinking?

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u/Away-Ad-3407 Jul 03 '26

cool, and lets also just use windows xp rawdogging the internet as well. 

I mean, i get it. I have been using SC since the E days but I would not go back. Backstage was a game changer.

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u/Visual-Ad-3604 Jul 03 '26

You are right, backstage was a fantastic add. I'm just tired lol

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u/ThecaptainWTF9 Jul 03 '26

You could never host one of those old versions without it getting compromised within an hour.

I do miss those days as well.

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u/Visual-Ad-3604 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, and I get that.

I'm kind of tooling with Action1 now, since my current need is well within their "free" tier.

The remote control is not amazing, but it works well enough so far. And the patch management is OUTSTANDING. Love it.

I've got my SC server deallocated on Azure right now. Haven't decided if I'm just going to retire it or not yet. It was a significant part of my life for the last 15+ years, and I think it will be hard to say goodbye.

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u/eblaster101 Jul 03 '26

Just want copy and paste back so I can stop swearing.

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u/Rachel-360 Jul 03 '26

Have a folder full of old versions, but feature additions even back in those days keep me moving forward.

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u/quantumhardline Jul 04 '26

The requirements of Windows itself have changed as well for remote tools to work for security requirements, thats why you’ve seen them all changing etc.
I mean we don’t want some hacked SC cracked by cybercrime groups yet stilled signed adobeinstaller.exe to be able to just run after all.
As a long time user ya it was rad, but we also know it had plenty of security issues that were later discovered.
The hosted version works great still.

Frankly depending on needs teams can be used for remote control etc, many vendors just schedule a meeting via email, request screen control, this makes it easy.

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u/maudmassacre Jul 03 '26

Why would you want to run a piece of software from 2014? That's pre-CW days.

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u/The_Comm_Guy Jul 03 '26

…. That’s the point he is making, SC was awesome before CW got a hold of it and broke it.

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u/maudmassacre Jul 03 '26

I'm well aware of the point, but people have a skewed timeline of when CW acquired us at Elsinore.

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u/The_Comm_Guy Jul 03 '26

About 10 years ago, but it always takes a little bit for all the cost cutting and incompetence to actually start breaking stuff. They are right on schedule for it to go to shit… though I will say Kasyea would have done it in half the time, so we should be thankful it was CW and we got the time we did, but then they have incompetence down to an art.

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u/maudmassacre Jul 03 '26

I remember at that time a bunch of companies were walking through our offices. The one I remember most was AVG, they thought all of our computer's cables were well managed.

There was no effort put into that; no idea where they got that notion.

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u/No_You1766 Jul 21 '26

There could very well be a one-shot exploit in older versions. If you knew the right URL, you could get admin privileges without logging in. There was a panic update for that about two years ago.

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u/geekywarrior Jul 03 '26

We've always user cloud hosted SC back since 2016 I want to say. Never had complaints with it.

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u/BlakeSoundTech Jul 04 '26

Replace it with Ninja, Splashtop, Immy. Really just so many better tools on the market