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  1. January 31st, 2003, 01:12 PM #1
    El Clammino
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    Anyone seen this before?

    file name is

    WDW_WC-$1471078-V1-W199919292147078.tif

    wreaking havoc on one of our LAN's...

    Came as an email attachment, user opened it. Then proceeded to print it

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    nothing on McAfee or Norton.

    Thanks
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  2. January 31st, 2003, 01:30 PM #2
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    Kinda sounds like a post card variant... what sort of havoc?
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  3. January 31st, 2003, 01:47 PM #3
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    Well when the user printed it, it printed one page of gibberish and 96 blank pages, bruoght down three printers, pc is at a crawl...
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  4. January 31st, 2003, 02:15 PM #4
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    Are the printers it brought down spewing paper like someone sent gibberish to print?
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  5. January 31st, 2003, 02:46 PM #5
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    What is (was?) the byte-size of the file?

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  6. February 10th, 2003, 10:32 PM #6
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    I know it's alittle late but as tiff files are usually quite large it may have just caused some odd memory error when the person printed. What was the verdict anyway?
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