Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Virus attack [AMIGA] Message-ID: <0006.8912051652.AA01999@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 5 Dec 89 13:59:28 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 21 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu armhold@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Armhold) writes: > My question is, could this virus (Byte Bandit) have been responsible > for the problems we had printing? We had the right printer driver, > and the preferences settings all seemed OK but it just would not print > properly. It changed type style randomly, stopped printing half way > through a job, and wouldn't abide to margin settings. I've never had > this type of problem before with Scribble!, which leads me to believe > that the virus might have had something to do with it. I know that > virii on the Mac tend to affect printing. Has anyone else experienced > this situation? I've never heard of Byte Bandit affecting printing, but you generally can't predict what a virus will do on someone else's system. There are too many variables and virus code is generally too badly written. The only answer is, if the problems show up with the virus in memory and not without it then the virus caused them. "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem" Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin VMS: rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie UNIX: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie