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- From: astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Will anyone buy NT?? (Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 10:22:58 GMT
- Organization: NetSpace Online Systems
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- >agreene@northnet.org (Anthony E. Greene) wrote:
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- >I don't suppose any of you who are continuing this thread have heard
- >of the deadly printer virus? It supposedly (well, not supposedly, it
- >actually did infect me! I lost two laser printers to it!) It sits in
- >the printer RAM, after an infected WinWord document has been printed,
- >and waits for the 0x3452 signal to be sent. This releases the safty
- >on the laser device for pre-print setup, and when this happens the
- >virus turns on the laser. On most HP brand laser printers
- >unfortunately, the main processor chip is located directly in the line
- >of fire! Bye bye printer!
-
- Yup. Sounds like shit to me.
-
- So, tell me again, how did the laser printer start running a graphics file?
- And where was that main chip?
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