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A Windows virus hit the networks of Intergral Energy and, according to a submission to Slashdot, the virus managed to spread to the operator display consoles in the control room.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Quick thinking techies in the control systems department of the utility swapped the infected Windows boxes for machines running Linux that they were using for development.</blockquote><div><br></div><div> The sick part, however, is that all they needed was X-servers for talking to the Solaris machines that really control the grid. So they were running X-servers on MS Windows...</div>
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