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Re: [Dumbass] Windows PCs reboot mid-surgery

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> ____/ me@xxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 23 January 2009 06:10 : \____
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>> _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/
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> Safety first...
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>                 Patients later, if if their guts are wide open.

I just keep wondering if all the wintrolls, the marketing
subversive criminals inside micoshaft, Oh Balmer and Goatse
will put themsevels to a surgeon's knife
in a life saving operation with a choice of medical software
running on an internet facing windummy PC on the left and Linux on the
right. Choose your OS wisely.



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