Re: What Is A "Weak Network Share"

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From: Anon y mous (anon_at_onanonanon.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:56:07 -0800

We had something similar. A guy from outside (remote salesman) infected our
system with BUGBEAR Virus or Worm or whatever it is. We had to download a
CD Rom version of fixes on all internal machines.... (This guy called in
with AOL dialup) and sent us infected Word and Excel files.

"Will James" <wjames@willwillwilljamesjamesjames.com> wrote in message
news:cs3gek$q7g@library1.airnews.net...
> We have a virus (acutally a worm) running around the office and one of the
> symptoms is it sends print job after print job to shared printers.
>
> (We use Windows 2000 OS)
>
> We have McAfee running on all our machines, but there must be a rogue
> machine somewhere.
>
> Until we find it, our printers are pretty much out of commission unless we
> disable sharing and print from just one person's machine.
>
> The Mcafee website says that the worm exploits "weak network shares."
>
> What the heck is a weak network share?
>
> I have removed "Everyone" from the permissions on the shared printers, and
> used explicit user names instead. No luck.
>
> I have also changed every user's password. No luck.
>
> So what is a weak network share, and how do I share a printer with a
> "strong" network share?
>
> Thanks
>
>

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