On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:36, Robin Turner wrote: > No, of course I haven't got a virus, but someone on our LAN has, and > it's printing garbage (probably its own code) to my Samba printer. One > line, one page, so we've got through two reams of paper this week. > Short of updating virus definitions and scanning all our Windows boxes > (eventually necessary, but a big job, especially since our institution > is not subscribed for virus definiton updates) is there a way I can > block this? > > Sir Robin
Can't you simply blow out all the jobs for that printer, take the printer offline, scan the network for the machine that's attempting to communicate to your Samba printer and then blow it up? -- Fri Jun 27 09:30:00 EST 2003 09:30:00 up 2 days, 9:16, 3 users, load average: 1.02, 1.15, 1.08 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Littering is dumb. -- Ronald Macdonald
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