me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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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."
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/20/sheffield_conficker/
Welcome to COLA "me".
Yes, we have all heard about this massive WINDOWS ONLY problem. The
purchasing and IT for that hospital responsible for allowing Windows
deployment need to be sacked. Today.
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If we wish to reduce our ignorance, there are people we will
indeed listen to. Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008
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