What's wrong with VB?

I mean it's a pile of crap for performance stuff, but it's excellent for rapid application development.

In fact I'd go as far as to say that if you were going to do something like that, VB's a better choice than, say, C. Fair enough it's not as good a language, but you can throw together something to "track an IP address" or whatever else much faster than a "proper" programmer. And time appears to be of the essence in that scene.