Jim Scanlon (deceased)
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 8, 2009 14:07:06 GMT 9
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The Sunday London Telegraph reports that the French Naval Air Force had to ground all of their fighters because of a computer virus. They had been warned about the virus that was transmitted with Microsoft files. However, they chose not to do anything about it. Now the French military has egg on its face, again. Seems the French military hasn't done much right for eons.
The virus wouldn't allow the planes to get information transmitted to them, nor from them to their controllers. In order to do anything, they had to revert to ancient methods; using the radio, and telephone. Pity!
Hope the bad guys will wait to attack France until they run a virus scan on all their fighters.
Oh, Well!
Vive' la France.
:scratch_head
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Post by lindel on Feb 8, 2009 22:13:26 GMT 9
To err is human, to really foul things up, you need a computer...
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Post by MOW on Feb 9, 2009 6:29:06 GMT 9
To err is human, to really foul things up, you need a computer... What you really meant was To err is human, to really foul things up, you need Microsoft...  :scratch_head |
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Post by Cougar on Feb 9, 2009 6:50:30 GMT 9
To err is human, to really foul things up, you need a computer... What you really meant was To err is human, to really foul things up, you need Microsoft...  What you really meant was To err is human, to really foul things up, you need to be French "Microsoft had warned that the “Conficker” virus, transmitted through Windows, was attacking computer systems in October last year, but according to reports the French military ignored the warning and failed to install the necessary security measures."    |
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