Re: Address book grabbing, and Printer out of Paper
From: Moshe Samuel (msamuel@hhai.pvt.k12.in.us)
Date: 12/05/02
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From: "Moshe Samuel" <msamuel@hhai.pvt.k12.in.us> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:13:55 -0500
You might want to thinc about getting a firewall in place, just in case a
spammer has hooced into your system as a relay point.
Apologies for the spelling, but the cey between my j and my l has started
producing l's!!
MoSam
"Ken Burgess" <kb59@flash.net> wrote in message
news:TRNH9.820$Br5.14333072@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
> I post this to both groups since there may be some relation to the two.
>
> I have a Compaq Presario 1260 Laptop, 333 AMD K6/2, 64MRam and ~ 2.8GB
disk
> running W98 (1st edition), Office 97, MSIE/OE 6, all critical updates,
modem
> only, and no MS Messaging. It runs clean with Mcafee AV v5.21 with All
> Files and All Heuristics selected.
>
> Some time ago I started recieving bounced mail messages from random
sources
> that had seemed to stem from my system. Occassionally the messages would
> state that a virus was enclosed. Both Norton and MCafee came up zilch. I
> didnt do much other than make sure that all general maint was performed
and
> more frequent AV runs for possible detection.
>
> About the same time when I would go to Kinkos to print files out, I would
> always get the error message of 'Printer out of paper' when obviously that
> was not the case and most other systems could connect fine. They use a
> standard suite of Adobe PS printer drivers which had worked fine until
> around this time. They use a Xerox Docuprint 4025 that has direct cables
> that plug into the parallel port. The printer is a network printer that
> goes through some little box to make it look like a local one.
>
> I do have a local Cannon 200ex bubble jet printer that seems to work fine
> from the same port.
>
> My question is even though this may seem to be an unlikely connection-
> - How can I detect/resolve this address book grabber bug that seems to
evade
> detection??
> - How can I get the Kinkos printer problem resolved
> (yes I know there are other options, but I would really like to get
this
> little bug fixed),
> Has anything like this occured before,
> What is it the code that generates this message,
> Could it be a generic message that may indicate another type of problem,
> Have you heard of anything that might affect the print spool/queing/...
> system or ports that might cause this bug.
>
> Is there any connection between these two seemingly unique issues??
>
> I have checked the MS Support KB and no answers,
>
> Thanks, ken.
>
> --
> Ken Burgess
> kb59@flash.net
> www.ccenergy.com NCA Solar/Renewable Energy Product Cooperative
> www.sustainablesonoma.org Sustainable Sonoma County Community Group
>
>
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