Re: [Full-Disclosure] Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

From: Gregh (chows_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 06/09/04

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    To: "Goudie, Derek" <derek.goudie@earthtech.ca>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:53:46 +1000

    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 ***, 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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