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Rinbot Brings Back Old Times to County Offices - UPDATE

William Wan writes in The Washington Post:

Typewriters were dusted off, hand-held radios were tested, and Anne Arundel County employees reported having to walk between offices rather than sending e-mails yesterday after a virus led to the shutdown of more than 2,500 computers.

The fast-spreading virus infected as many as 200 county computers Wednesday, and technicians shut down the entire network for Anne Arundel offices for more than 24 hours.

The disruption left hundreds of employees without access to databases, the Internet and printers, but 911 emergency services and financial transactions such as bill payments were not affected, officials said.

By the end of the day, parts of the network were up and running. But during the two days of network shutdown, some county employees said they were forced to resort to tools and methods abandoned long ago in the name of technological progress.

posted by Fergie @ 3/09/2007 10:07:00 AM