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| abduli06 2004-11-28, 1:33 pm |
| I have an unsual problem.i work in a college.in one of the it rooms when someone logs on to a pc it automatically starts printing 1000s of pages with the same info but diffrent font sizes.
it prints the username of the person looged,computer name and broadcast ip address, then subnet mask.
its probably a student doing this but i need to know how they do this and how i can stop.has anyone encountered this before?
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| KiwiPete 2004-11-28, 4:41 pm |
| This may not be of much help, coz it occurred a couple of years ago & I can't remember the details, but I had a user in my last job that had exactly this problem.
Turned out to be a virus, believe it or not.
Wish I could remember which one.
Anyway, make sure the machine (and the whole network) has up-to-date virus definitions and/or run a free online virus scan at http://housecall.antivirus.com/hous...start_frame.asp
Probably wrong, but worth a shot. | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-11-29, 12:13 pm |
| A student could have applied a simple batch file to run as a logon script.
Check your registry settings:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER-Software-Microsoft-Windows-Currentversion-Run
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE-Software-Microsoft-Windows-Currentversion-Run
Delete any programs that you don't want to start automatically when a user gets on the machine.
Hope that helps. | |
| abduli06 2004-11-29, 1:43 pm |
| The pcs are on a network which updates and scans for virus automatically.
i will try a diffrent antivrus software.
But i feel its something to do with the logon batch file as someone kindly suggested.
I will give my feedback on this.
thanks |
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