Re: Terminal services installs printer

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 07/22/02 

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:54:16 -0700

On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 13:13:44 +0200, "Rasmus Hayseed"
<mickey@mouse.com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I've noticed some strange behaviour and would like to know what the cause
>might be.
>
>I recently logged into a Win2k server via Terminal Services, and noticed
>that a printer on my local network turned up as the default printer on the
>machine in question (which is baout 10,000 miles away).
>
>The server had been infected with Nimda recently.
>
>The .printer mapping in IIS had not been removed - which I then did,
>together with the other unused extensions.
>
>What had happened? Does Nimda attempt to run the .printer exploit?
>
>Any help understanding the situation would be greatly appreciated.

One of the features/options you can set for terminal services is to
map the local printer. Nice feature actually if you connect and need
to print.

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