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Re: [Dumbass] Windows PCs reboot mid-surgery



me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
_The Register_ reports that "staff at hospitals across Sheffield are battling a major computer virus outbreak after managers turned off Windows security updates for all 8,000 PCs on the network" with "more than 800 computers ... infected with self-replicating 'Conficker' code". The virus takes advantage of a known problem that is resolved through a Windows patch that wasn't installed because "the decision to disable automatic security updates was taken during Christmas week after PCs in an operating theatre were rebooted mid-surgery."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/


Since a patch was issued in October and Sheffield did not turn off automatic updates until around Christmas (late December) the machines in question should have had the patch installed before the virus outbreak. Sounds like the full story has yet to come out.

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