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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 1:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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! > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
