Re: Two birds with one worm

[<pchipman () memphis edu>]

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" <maute001 () bama ua edu>
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?