Ullrich_Fischer@mindlink.bc.ca (Ullrich Fischer) (06/12/91)
The following problem has occurred on our network over the past two days: On Monday, a user showed us two printouts from WordPerfect 5.1 (Network version) printed from the same document about 5 minutes apart. She swears she made no changes to the document between the two printouts. On one printout all the Bitstream Dutch 11 point (we use Bitstream fonts on HP Laserjet II printers) 'w's (upper and lower case) were missing (i.e. replaced by relatively narrow blank spaces). On the 2nd printout, the 'w's were all there. At the top of the document, a large capital W using a different font appeared in both printouts. It is a one-page document. Today the same sort of thing happened to another user on a different PC using Lotus 2.01 networker. This time the 'p's were missing from one printout but not another of the same spreadsheet. We are using Novell Netware 2.15C on an internet with a 3.1 server. These incidents happened to people who were using the 2.15C to store their data files and the application software. We are using Printer Assist from Fresh Technologies to print to the laser printers. The two incidents involved different printer servers and printers as well as different PCs. Both PCs used DOS 3.3 I scanned the network and both PCs involved using McAfee's SCAN version 77 but turned up no indication of any virus infection. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time anything like this has happened on our network. No, I am not sure this is a virus, but it seems the kind of thing that malicious code might do. If anyone has any ideas as to what may be going on here, I would be grateful to hear them. - - Ullrich Fischer@mindlink.bc.ca (Let's just have 1 line signatures eh?)