virus and printen

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Familie Kamphuis

We have theproblem that suddenly the printer starts to print "shit". Could
this be a virus and and which one ?????

Best wishes

Nico
 
Familie Kamphuis said:
We have theproblem that suddenly the printer starts to print "shit". Could
this be a virus and and which one ?????

Best wishes

Nico
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Bugbear aka Tanatos did this IIRC but its been around for a while so an up
to date virus scanner should pick it up

Nicky
 
We have theproblem that suddenly the printer starts to print "shit". Could
this be a virus and and which one ?????

Best wishes

Nico
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Have you tried rebooting the pc and turning off/on the printer. Printers
may have a job interrupted and may miss some special control characters
and end up just printing basically a hex dump of everything sent to it.

DRACO-
 
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