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Virus sinks Royal Navy fleet comms

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Sir William Blackstone famously said the Royal Navy was something along the lines of being England's "ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island." But then there weren't many computer viruses around in the 18th century.

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Comments (5)

Sander_Marechal ·
Ah, the Royal Navy. Didn't they recently "upgrade" their ships to Windows 2000? Ah well, at least now we know which systems were powered by Windows: the comms system.
herzeleid ·
Let's get this right, people, it's not that hard.

Repeat after me: It's a microsoft windows virus, not a "computer" virus.
Bob_Robertson ·
Bravo, Herzeleid. That cannot be said loudly or often enough!
tracyanne ·
I'm here in the middle of trying to sort out a problem one of our clients, that's of the company I program for, has. So I'm remote desktoped into the Database server, and cross checking the data against the web pages, when up pops the message, Updates have been installed now rebooting. So our Server with the Website goes down, the Database Server goes down, and i'm going to have get back to where I was because now I'll have to rewite my queries, reinterogate the database etc etc etc

%$%$#%$#%$ Windows.

In fact long strings of words that will violate TOS.
jacog ·
"Rule Britania! Britannia rule the waves. Britons never, never, never shall be slaves."

:)

Irony.

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