[27858] in Kerberos
RE: Unauthorized Introduction of Kerberos into A Private Personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linda Grady)
Fri Jun 1 14:40:51 2007
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From: "Linda Grady" <LGRADY@stlmsd.com>
To: "Jeff Saxton" <jeff.saxton@sensage.com>, "Ken Raeburn" <raeburn@mit.edu>
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Thank you; I suspected it's probably a virus.
I'll try the search.
LJG
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From: Jeff Saxton [mailto:jeff.saxton@sensage.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 1:22 PM
To: Ken Raeburn
Cc: Linda Grady; kerberos@mit.edu
Subject: Re: Unauthorized Introduction of Kerberos into A Private
Personal Computer
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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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