[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

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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-----
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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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