Re: Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

["Gregh" <chows () ozemail com au>]

I think the original OP just didn't know how to spell some words correctly.
I believe he actually meant to refer to a "krypto virus" which is one that
affects the Superman factor meaning that those of us who are supposed to
know it all and do it all, 24 hours a day without rest or even a shit, would
start to finally lose that veneer of invulnerability!

(Stranger from a strange I.T, Planet. Jumps firewalls in a single bound!
Faster than a 3.4ghz CPU! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! Oh
no, wait - it's chicken bloody little again!)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Goudie, Derek" <derek.goudie () earthtech ca>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 6:54 AM
Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely
Discovered!


> Thanks!  I needed that....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakob Jünger [mailto:krimskram () freenet de]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:01 PM
> To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely
> Discovered!
>
> Hi,
>
> I just can admit to what Billy wrote. The Firewall of my PDA is getting
> hot. It plays "Yellow Submarine" everytime I press the escape-key. It
> has to be something like this crypto-thing. I don't know what "crypto"
> means but it seems to be encrypted with EnglishLanguageProtocol.
> Believe me, I have been the administrator of my PDA since I was three
> years old.
>
> Jakob
>
> > Whatever ssl is, I don't know but it's using the so-called "ssl"
> > port on the web servers.
>
> > But this port 443 is not SSH! Why should it be encrypted? And what
> > is this "ssl" thing? I've been in IT for many years and I am now IT
> > Director here at the bank... I would think that I would know what
> > "ssl" would be. I don't think this worm has anything to do with
> > whatever "ssl" is. Does anybody even still use ssl? That's probably
> > why the hackers chose it.
>
> > Sorry to say but it is not! I checked my incoming traffic again this
> morning
> > and the attack on port 443 is still coming in full steam ahead! I
> don't know
> > what's going on, but I am about to block that port on my firewall.
> Some
> > nitwit (probably the idiot that was here before I became IT Director)
> > somehow, for some reason, deliberately opened port 443 on the
> firewalls!
>
> > I am beginning to think that this is the first wave of the new coming
> global
> > crypto-storm!
>
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