[27856] in Kerberos
Re: Unauthorized Introduction of Kerberos into A Private Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Saxton)
Fri Jun 1 14:27:05 2007
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:21:31 -0700
From: Jeff Saxton <jeff.saxton@sensage.com>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
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Cc: Linda Grady <lgrady@stlmsd.com>, kerberos@mit.edu
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Some viruses look like Kerberos to the anti-virus software, search the list archives
Ken Raeburn wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2007, at 9:57, Linda Grady wrote:
>> My home computer has been infected with Kerberos software by an
>> outsider
>> or group of outsiders. I am a single user pc, not networked to any
>> other computers, and I do not wish to be networked to any other
>> computers. The software, since being forcibly introduced via my usual
>> internet connection (I assume) has "audit" features which attempt to
>> control the entire machine. If you try to delete any of the Kerberos
>> material, it causes an automatic crash of the computer.
>
> Many operating systems, including Windows and Mac OS X, are shipping
> with Kerberos integrated into the operating system these days. So,
> yes, deleting part of the operating system is likely to cause you
> problems. Many operating systems also have auditing capabilities,
> though that's not really part of Kerberos proper.
>
> Why do you think your machine was "infected" with Kerberos software?
>
> If your machine was infected with some software that's taking control
> of the machine from you, I don't think it's related to the Kerberos
> software that gets discussed on this list. You might want to try
> installing some kind of anti-virus software, or re-installing.
>
> Ken
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