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| Thread ID: 26565 | 2002-10-30 07:50:00 | Possible Virus??? | Chilling_Silence (9) | Press F1 |
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| 94598 | 2002-10-30 07:50:00 | It keeps coming up: Printers Folder There was an error found when printing to the document "No Document Name" to LPT1:. The Printer is out of Paper do you wanna cancel... This is coz I took out all the paper coz it started spitting out CR@P... I have AVG, and its fully up to date. What might else be doing it In the Proccesses (Ctrl+Alt+Esc), there's nothing out of the ordinary. What could it be??? I can take a photo of the full pages of nothing-ness it's been printing (Just random characters) and uplaod it if you need... I heard some people can tell the virus by what type its printing out, but in saying that my antivirus is Up2D8! Thanks Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 94599 | 2002-10-30 08:23:00 | You say your AVG is up2date - have you run AVG since this problem showed up? | Bob-Robert (1996) | ||
| 94600 | 2002-10-30 08:38:00 | Did you send something to print or did your printer just start by itself? If it started by itself, then you may need to visit Symantecs web for the bugbear virus removal tool . . symantec . com/avcenter/venc/data/w32 . bugbear@mm . removal . tool . html" target="_blank">securityresponse . symantec . com If you sent the document & it came out as rubbish, check that you sent it to the right printer . If you have 2 printer types installed & configured to use the same port & only 1 connected at the time, sending a print job to the wrong printer will result in garbage . Another thing to try is to re-install the printer, but first, make sure you not only uninstall it first, but delete any files left behind by the uninstaller . An example, HP printers leave files behind in the WinNT folder . Search for any files using the wildcard hp* . * in your installed windows directory & delete the files, then re-install the printer . Hope this helps Mike P |
mikep (1856) | ||
| 94601 | 2002-10-30 09:18:00 | Good as AVG is, it has been known to miss the occasional bug, perhaps a visit to Housecall or Panda and an online scan may shed light on your problem . http://housecall . trendmicro . com/ . pandasoftware . com/activescan/com/activescan_principal . htm" target="_blank">www . pandasoftware . com And if all else fails perhaps like so many other avid devotees of F1 perhaps a visit to the back yard to yell at the local possom population may assist in relieving stress ;) |
katt (2059) | ||
| 94602 | 2002-10-30 17:57:00 | I ran into this almost same problem just a few days ago where the printer was spitting out page after page of garbled greek and 2m year old scripts........... I solved it uninstalling the printer and switching it off, shutting down the computer, unplugging all the printer leads and scanner as the printer plugs via the scanner, then start over, replug everything in, start up the computer, reinstall...... and everything seemed to be ok there after. I was told once many moons ago that sometimes the scanner when it is plugged in the way we have it can sometimes cause a glitch, thankfully it happens very rarely. |
duckyduck (197) | ||
| 94603 | 2002-10-30 20:13:00 | Yep its the bugbear virus. Hopefully this will put an end to the chitchat about how great AVG is. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 94604 | 2002-10-30 20:19:00 | Hmm.. I have no scanner. Webcam is the closest thing. Nobody has opened ay new progs, just about to run a program, when It first appeared. AVG can pick up the bugbear too. i'll give houscall a shot I guess. otherwise, nothing else comes to mind? I'll let you know how housecall gets on! Chilling_Silece |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 94605 | 2002-10-30 20:28:00 | I but $10 on it been bugbear. I know AVG can pick up bugbear, and its a pretty good piece of software thats free. Well its good 95% of the time. Problem is that 5% that its not good is when a virus could pop through |
roofus (483) | ||
| 94606 | 2002-10-30 20:45:00 | >Hopefully this will put an end to the chitchat about how great AVG is. Ummmmmm bugbear flew straight past NAV when it first came out, i updated the definitions and it was still undetected. Some time that week NAV caught up with bugbear.... NO anti-virus program is perfect, and i remain unconvinced that AVG is inferior to any other AV product, after all, viri must do the rounds enough to get noticed before the anti-virus people can be aware and act. |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 94607 | 2002-10-30 22:22:00 | I have dealt with a problem where bugbear went past Nortons (just before it was due to be updated) and bugbear then de-activated nortons, so even when updated it never found it. That would be the same with AVG, McAfee etc. |
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