N7FRJ@UWALOCKE.BITNET (George.Saba) (11/08/90)
Resent-From: "Otto.Stolz" <RZOTTO@DKNKURZ1.BITNET> Dear VIRUS-L subscriber, I think the following contribution from the Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL at SUVM.BITNET> will be interseting to you, as well. If you want to comment, please direct your response both to VIRUS-L and either to the Novell Group or the original sender, George Saba <N7FRJ at UWALOCKE.BITNET, N7FRJ at Locke.hs.washington.edu>. Best wishes Otto Forwarded note: > XT and AT class PC's running MS-WORD version 5.0B on an Advanced Netware > 286 Version 2.15c LAN in Seattle have either 'crashed' while attempting > to save the document they were working on, or have received a message > saying: > "You SHOULDn't print this file" > when they attempt to print it... > This started on 1-Nov-90, (I noticed the halloween notice a couple days > back) and thought I would report this as well. > > Other known symptoms so far have been: At least 2 unrelated executable > files have been 'altered'. Unfortunately, several users had SUPERVISOR > priv's. The executable file MENUPARZ.EXE (in the PUBLIC directory) had > several chunks of it 'zeroed'. It's date and size were not changed, > only it's contents. It was flagged as ROS. (But with SUPERVISOR > priv's, you can do anything, right?) > > I was contacted in an attempt to 'quantify' what was going on. > All comments are appreciated! > > George Saba