full-disclosure - Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

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From: insecure at ameritech.net (Jerry Heidtke)
Subject: Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

Crypto's not new. We had an outbreak in Milwaukee 11 years ago. It's not 
a virus, nor a worm, however. It's an amoeba!

It caused a lot of "traffic" on certain "ports".

http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/apr03/131542.asp

http://disted.mcw.edu/mpm/epidemic/milwaukee/Cryptosporidium/Chapter1/titlepage.htm

Gregh wrote:

>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!)
>
>
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