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Re: [Dumbass] Windows PCs reboot mid-surgery

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____/ me@xxxxxxxxxxx on Friday 23 January 2009 06:10 : \____

> _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/

Safety first...


                Patients later, if if their guts are wide open.

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