[dba-Tech] Printer virus

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Fri Jun 8 12:56:00 CDT 2012


Trend, but I fully expect them to bring out an update today that fixes it, so you should be ok :-)

At least I hope you are, as I'm on call this weekend, and could do without the calls!


Jon

Sent from my iPhone 6 (Beta)

On 8 Jun 2012, at 18:38, "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> wrote:

> BTW what are you using for security software? IO - which of my client's will
> finally call me about this this evening at 5:00 pm? ;-)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 10:51 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Printer virus
> 
> God no, it was just the only place we found any online discussion.
> MalwareBytes has put an update out which finds and cleans this one. 
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 6 (Beta)
> 
> On 8 Jun 2012, at 16:43, "John Bartow" <john at winhaven.net> wrote:
> 
>> You guys still using McAfee? Really? 
>> 
>> Anyway, keep us up to date. I haven't any reports of this happening yet.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
>> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 9:36 AM
>> To: Off Topic; Dba-Tech
>> Subject: [dba-Tech] Printer virus
>> 
>> Hi all, we've been experiencing problems today across all our sites
>> (worldwide) with printers spooling out reams of paper with random 
>> ASCII characters all over them, reminiscent of the Bugbear virus from 
>> about 10 years ago.
>> 
>> It's not just us, there's lots of Internet traffic about this, it's 
>> happening everywhere. See 
>> https://community.mcafee.com/thread/45989?start=0
>> for more details.
>> 
>> Importantly as ever, keep your anti-virus up to date and active.
>> 
>> 
>> Jon
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