From: Gordon Vrdoljak (vrdoljak@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 11:07:43 PDT
Could also be a word macro virus. Scan your computer with norton.
At 10:47 AM 7/14/2003 -0700, Jon Forrest wrote:
>At 02:35 PM 7/11/2003, Eric Fong wrote:
>>Hello:
>>
>>Our department has an HP Laserjet 4100N which has a printing problem
>>that's baffling to me. It seems that every hour or so, it starts
>>printing 2 pages. One looks like the beginning of an HP test print page
>>(the "Congratulations") picture on top, followed by lots of symbols and
>>two thick black lines below them. The next page is an e-mail that was
>>sent on May 7, 2003 that I guess someone had wanted printed. I also
>>found out just now, that these pages have been printing on a daily basis
>>since May 7, but no one told me up to now. I tried turning off the RAM
>>disk, but that didn't seem to do anything. I'm not familiar with these
>>kinds of printer problems, so I'm asking people for their
>>suggestions. Worse comes to worse, we call WHSG for someone to come
>>up. So, any ideas? Thanks.
>
>I've seen this too. It's probably due to somebody
>trying to print to your printer, but their spooler thinks the job
>failed so it resubmits the job every day.
>
>I suggest using a network monitoring program,
>such as tcpdump, to find the source of the print
>job.
>
>Jon
>
>
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