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Story: Virus downs systems at three London hospitals

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Posted by: ator1940 (Wednesday 19 November 2008, 1:52 PM)

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Virus downs systems at three London hospitals

It has been my opinion, for several years, that critical organizations should not be running a windows based system. Medical institutions, law enforcement, communications, military, etc. There is no sure way to protect them, other than unplugging the network. While true that any system can be compromised, windows is the easiest, and even with all safeguards in place it is still vulnerable. A false sense of security is a dangerous concept.

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