[dba-Tech] Printer virus

Mark Breen marklbreen at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 03:26:50 CDT 2012


Hi John,

What should we be using?  I do not pay too much attention to it, but I have
McAfee on a few sites.

thanks

Mark


On 8 June 2012 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-----
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> [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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