[plug] FW: Bugbear Virus (fwd)

[Bret Busby]

Anne sent this home.

Thought some of you might be interested.

It is part of a message from her work sysadmin.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
  Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Douglas Adams, 1988
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---------- Forwarded message ----------

>Subject:	Bugbear Virus
>
>Please Note:
>
>A new virus has been detected call Bugbear. It is basically a mass-mailing
>worm but it is also spread through network shares. It does not handle the
>network resource types correctly so it also attacks printers as well, which
>causes a garbled message containing the words "This program does not print
>dos systems" to be printed
>
>Other than the normal problems associates with viruses, this one is having
>an affect on Unix Servers as well. If you are using products like The SCO
>Group's Advanced File & Print Server,  Tarantella's VISION FS, SAMBA or any
>other product which allows the Unix printer to be accessed by Windows'
>clients (via SMB), the Unix print queues are flooded with print jobs with a
>size of 50688K eventually causing the failure of the Unix print scheduler's
>lpd and lpsched.
>
>This is definitely not a hoax, three of our WA users have reported this
>problem in the last two days.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>