NSW's ambulance service diagnoses system virus

[Don McKenzie]

NSW's ambulance service diagnoses system virus

NSW's ambulance service has identified the computer virus that forced the shutdown of its system responsible for
dispatching and tracking ambulances over a weekend but will not reveal which virus did the damage.

Technicians at the ambulance service discovered the virus while performing scanning tests in database boxes accessed by
VisiCAD -- a globally adopted computer dispatch system used by the NSW service for 10 years.

Full Story:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/aus...ses-system-virus/story-e6frgakx-1226009679349

Cheers Don...

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[Sylvia Else]

NSW's ambulance service diagnoses system virus

NSW's ambulance service has identified the computer virus that forced
the shutdown of its system responsible for dispatching and tracking
ambulances over a weekend but will not reveal which virus did the damage.

One would have to suspect that they don't want to reveal it because
doing so would also reveal that they must have been doing something very
silly to have been infected.

Sylvia.

 

[Sylvia Else]

Or even "sneeze".....

Oh, well that's human viruses. I was prepared to defer to your expertise
as to what someone sreezing in an ambulance might do to a computer system.

Sylvia.

 

[F Murtz]

Yes, they let someone sreeze in one of their ambulances - that's how
viruses spread, you know.

That sreezing is a huge problem.

 

[atec77]

Or even "sneeze".....

As long as no one wants a "cough"

 

[SG1]

As long as no one wants a "cough"

Would be worse if they got a Gough????

 

[Don McKenzie]

Oh, well that's human viruses. I was prepared to defer to your expertise as to what someone sreezing in an ambulance
might do to a computer system.

Sylvia.

Sreezing in an ambulance would obviously produce the Sinus infection, or sinusitis which causes inflammation of the
paranasal sinuses. One of the dreaded new and deadly strain of attacks on computer systems.

I also figure that someone did something they shouldn't have and they aren't prepared to admit it.
An illegal software install, or perhaps a USB injection from a memory stick. Virus by injection!

Security is an easy spin answer, from a virus spin doctor.

Cheers Don...

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