Re: Two birds with one worm

From: pchipmanat_private
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 00:26:21 PDT

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    I can confirm that this worm is killing JetDirect cards. The HP 
    JetDirect Card in our HP LaserJet 4000N has been steadily crashing as 
    infection attempts hit it; the result is that, every ten to thirty 
    minutes or so, the printer itself crashes, dumping a page of exception 
    data from the card and freezing with an "EIO 2 ERROR" message. A hard 
    reset of the printer is required to make it operational again.
    
    --
    Patrick Chipman
    System Administrator
    University of Memphis Cognitive Science Lab
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Brian.J.Mauter" <maute001at_private>
    Date: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:10 pm
    Subject: Re: Two birds with one worm.
    
    > Hi,
    > 
    > Testing various other devices on my subnet, I found that my 3Com 
    > WirelessLAN Access Point was not affected, but my HP 4500 was 
    > because it has an HP
    > Jet Direct Card in it.  I do not have conclusive evidence that it 
    > was Code
    > Red, but the printer has never acted strangely before.  When I 
    > call the
    > printer's webserver, I get a "Device is not attached" error along 
    > with "HP
    > JetDirect [Not available:SNMPException: no response]" at the top 
    > of the
    > page.  All of the admin functions fail and I cannot determine if the
    > printer is even functioning.  (It's remote, or else I'd walk over 
    > to it
    > and look.)
    > 
    > I don't know, but this may get any HP device with JetDirect.  Can 
    > anyonequalify that?
    



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