oi Lewis!!
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/tanatos.shtml
>>Side Effect
>>According to reports, network printers start to print a lot of garbage when the worm
>infects a network. This might be the side-effect of the worm's attempts to infect a
>network
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Critz
Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
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Sunday, October 6, 2002, 2:09:00 AM, you wrote:
LS> At 01:56 PM 10/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>>every printer on the print server in the hospital just started printing out
>>pages and pages of crap. Mostly unintelligible stuff, but i did read
>>something about not being able to be run in dos mode.
>>Was really quite something.
>>
>>Any ideas?
LS> Off hand it sounds a great deal like someone has tried to print a Windows
LS> executable (.exe). If you look at them in a hex mode you'll see they have a
LS> bit of text in them saying they can't run in DOS mode (trying running a
LS> Windows app in a DOS shell and it'll print the message out for you, if
LS> you're curious.)
LS> As to whether virii are doing this or some just some.... um, clueless
LS> employee somewhere is another issue.
LS> You *might* be able to tell what the name of the .exe being printed is from
LS> the output, btw.
LS> --min
LS>
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