Printers suddenly start printing without any print job

[encata]

hi everybody

I am facing a problem
Some of our printers start printing garbage
without ordering any job. they print until they are out of paper. What is up? Is there any virus explode? Why you worry? Life is too short to worry.

 

[Mulga]

I would suspect a virus, you can do a free online scan at

http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[JLSigman]

Could also be that the "test printer engine" button on the printer itself is messed up. We had one printer at my previous job do that. Jennifer Sigman
1/2 of the IT staff

 

[Luckyfour]

It sounds like the W32.Bugbear@mm which, according to Symantec, "Security Response has seen that because the worm does not properly handle the network resource types, it may flood shared printer resources, which causes them to print garbage or disrupt their normal functionality."

 

[encata]

Luckyfour Right!

Thank you all
It was the Virus W32.Bugbear@mm
and the removal tool from Symantec Why you worry? Life is too short to worry.