Web Sites Controling Your Printer

[lec169]

Maybe I am still learning after 20+ years in Computers. I was at a web site and it decided that it wanted print things out to my printers. Has this happened to anyone else? Just Curious

Lec

[Susan]

Never happened to me...weird.
I'd run a good virus scan about now, though.

[Jackal]

Sounds like you have Netbus or Back Orifice. They're trojans which allow outside users to control your computer - even down to the CDROM drawer. It's funny at first if it starts opening and closing by itself, but it gets "old" real quick http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif.

Visit http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html and look up the info on these trojans, if this sounds like your situation.

HTH

[Eli]

Jackal,

I had something like that at one point. I didn't think it was funny at all... S.O.B. stole my AOL password files.