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Story: Virus hits Windows-based cashpoints

Posted by: Dan Tratson (Tuesday 9 December 2003, 3:03 PM)

Has anyone else noticed that "Windows .NET" based automatic machines in general always seem to be broken?

a couple of ATM's near where I work were recently 'upgraded' a couple of months ago. Although I had never had a problem before, I have now twice been unable to obtain cash because they both have "windows errors".

Another example is the "Virgin Fasttrack" machines. At Birmingham New Street station, it seems every 2nd day trying to use these machines ends up either in a "Windows .NET error" or a "Unable to connect to network" error.

Its annoying that so many companies seem to be upgrading to what is obviously a very flawed system.