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had the same problem on an other network I worked on what I did is uninstall the printers and reconfigure them for the network and print sharing for some reason it does something to the printers now everything works fine have not had any problems again with the virus or the printers
I have run into this printer thing as well, Seeker9000. I actually had to capture the printer ports as LPT ports in order to be able to print to them. See if that helps any. Reinstallling new drivers for the printer did not help at all.
Actually it was Grandam who posted that link first, Todo! I do a lot of tech work but I don't normally do much with networking and haven't worked with netbios before. How do I remove it? It's active and won't let me turn it off. What functionality will i loose? I still have a cutomer who is getting an attack almost daily! He has a three computer network all with file and print sharing. Also they all connect to the same internet provider on the same account ( only one at a time ) but only one computer is getting the infections. ( which norton so far has caught and quarantined )It also doesnt' seem to be spreading to the other computers. The big differences are that he has one Winme (the infected one ) one win98se and one win95b! The 95/98 machines so far seem to have avoided getting the virus, either through the network or the internet connection. From what I understand of this virus, it contacts a conputer directly through tcp/ip via an open port and Ip address. Couldn't it then be blocked by a firewall? I noticed at home I've been getting hits on my firewall saying something about netbios.... Nothing has gotten through though.
Shard92 Did you download the patch from microsoft?http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS00-072.asp
Since I have fixed the problem with the tcp/ip settings none of my clients have called me and I called them yesterday to make sure everything was ok and no problem here is a link that talkes about the network protocols and it's a good site to check your internet security http://grc.com/su-bondage.htm
another thing I have tried. I did not change any settings made sure the system was disinfected and installed zonealarm. Bingo no more Opaserv it shuts ports 137 and 139 these are 2 good solutions that have worked for me. Hope this helps
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Thanks actually that does help. I'll have to check your link in the morning though as I'm running late now. I thought zone alarm might take care of it. And all those people thought I was crazy for running it on a dial up connection!
Well your right, Grandam did post that link! I did also download that patch from Microsoft. I was over at the customers site on Monday working on the 2 machines infected and so far they haven't called back, which is usually a good sign. :D . I should recommend using a firewall . their using a dial up connection as well.