Re: Printer Garbage

[hickling@xxxxxxxx (Lee Hickling)]

Harmon,

   Recalling that Microsoft is reported to have shipped some CDs
containing a virus, I have to wonder -- could there be one in the Canon
graphic software? Did you ask Canon tech support about it? They have to be
worried, because this could wipe out one of their best-selling product lines.

   Lee Hickling
   hickling@xxxxxxxx

Harmon Seaver wrote
>Just thought I'd pass along a warning to the list about the Canon
>Bubble Jet Color printer. Nothing wrong with the printer, but the
>graphics software that comes with it is fairly close to being a trojan
>horse. Don't try to install it -- unless you're ready to have your
>partition table trashed. Just happened to a client of mine, luckily I
>was able to do a simple "fdisk /mbr" from straight dos and make things
>alright again. some friends who have a computer business here cracked up
>when I mentioned it to them -- they've seen it over and over.
>Said that sometimes it does even more damage than what I saw, and the
>drive really is trashed and has to be reformated.
Lee Hickling            
hickling@xxxxxxxx