Preserved Topic: network printers bug (super psycho) (Page 1 of 1)

having trouble runnning this one down in Google Groups or anywhere else for that matter. Been searching network, printer, virus, jibberish etc... not really getting anything remotely close to this

Last night one of the shared desktop printers here freaked and just started printing one line at the top of each sheet in a weird character set (no print jobs in qeue, just printing a line on all available blank paper). This morning it would seem every shared desktop printer on our WAN is doing the same thing.

There's very little information other than that, there was one mention on one of the printjobs of not being able to print from a DOS program, that's all folks.

Anyone ever seen anything like this?

Jason

[This message has been edited by JKMabry (edited 10-15-2002).]

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Whops! NT4 network with Win2k workstations, 1 XP workstation with a desktop printer seems unaffected

Thanks for the quick reply man, I'm still digging as well. My first fears were intrusion and virus, of course I'm hoping that's not the case...

Jason

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This won't help, I'm sure, but the same thing happens to me and my father on our HP inkjets every once in a while. It'll do that for pages till I shut it off. Of course, that's only when I'm actually trying to print something and something goes nuts. Usually have to kill the job and turn the printer back on or, rarely, reboot.



Offbeat, roadside Texas attractions. (A little Google bombing doesn't hurt.)

I had the same problem not so long ago but on a stand alone machine... no network. The cure was, as I best recall, control panel/system/Device manager. Removed the printer. Reboot with driver disk ready... let windows do it's 'found new hardware' thing... fed it the disk when asked and it worked fine. Simply reinstalling the drivers didn't do it. Had to first remove the printer via device manager.

ooooh, this is nasty sounding

yeah, I've seen this on single printers on occassion but never a network like this, this ain't fun. Glad I'm not the sysadmin.

Jason

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
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Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

reinstall every network printer on the WAN?

no.



I'm pretty sure it's the bugbear virus thing at this point, looking into that. Thanks fellas, if there's any office violence I'll post pictures

Jason

Yeah, it's definitely bugbear. Same thing happened here on the network when all the printers started printing gibberish.

If you can, check the event log of the print server to see which machine the print job is coming from. If the print job is listed as a "Remote Downlevel Document", it is almost definitely the bugbear virus.

If you go to to Symantec's virus definition page for bugbear, it'll give you a registry key you can search for to confirm the bugbear infestation.

We were pretty hard hit when it first came out becuase we got it just before Symantec released the updated virus defs for bugbear.

Good luck. =)