Strange printer problem, Hacked?

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rmiller818

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We found our printer had used up all the paper in the tray, each sheet only had some random characters on them (like the wingdings font type stuff) and it was only a line or two.

I opened the print queue and found the document (which had not finished printing yet) to be titled Remote Downlevel Document. What is even stranger is the owner listed for the document is Guest.

Now we do not have the guest account enabled for ANY of our PCs on the network. Could this be from some attempted hacking or something?

Some additional info from the document properties:
65536 bytes, 0 pages, Datatype: RAW, Processor: WinPrint, Owner: Guest.

Any ideas of what I should look for to ensure this was not some hacker/virus? (besides a scan, that's in progress) or other things to look at?
 

lgentle

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Remote Downlevel Document referrs to terminal server......

Something probably happened to the document while coming over the wire from the terminal server and got corrupt.

The strange characters are usually a driver problem, but, as I said above the job could have gotten corrupted.
 
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