How to treat Windows XP computer viruses at Royal Melbourne Hospital

How to treat Windows XP computer viruses at Royal Melbourne Hospital

 

 

The Windows XP system of Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia is infected with a virus, causing the hospital to be paralyzed. Not only does a lot of medical diagnosis work adopt manual processing, but even the patient information is also affected. The hospital is still committed to solving this "Miscellaneous" problem ".

Virus Infection in the medical system

Melbourne Health (Melbourne medical) is a hospital management system, and the war began last Friday afternoon. The virus has been raging in the hospital system over the weekend, and IT staff and security consultants have been working day and night to address isolation issues.

On Monday, hospital staff received an email saying that the virus attacked the pathology of the Melbourne Health system, causing employees to manually extract samples such as blood, tissue, and urine, however, computers cannot assist in registration, detection, and display results.

The staff who provide the hematology and biochemical test results for the intensive care unit and emergency department should contact by phone. If an emergency Pathology sample needs to be processed, the staff should fax it.

In addition, the hospital's food delivery system is also affected.

 

The hospital said:

"IT staff are handling the virus urgently. It takes time to solve the problem. We do not recommend that you manually fix the problem ." Meanwhile, the hospital warned hospital staff to shut down their computers and not to log on to banks, Gmail, or Facebook.

The hospital spokesman did not explain how the virus was infected or how long it would take for the hospital system to recover to normal.

Windows XP retired for more than a year

In October April 8, 2014, the Windows XP system, which served for 13 years, officially retired ". Although the system can still be used, Microsoft does not provide official service support. According to data in March of the same year, the market share of Windows XP fell sharply by 6.7% to 17.2% compared with that in.

According to statistics, the current share of Windows XP in Australia in the desktop system is very small, with only 2.23% left, far less than Windows 10, 8.1, 7 and Mac OS X, while in China, windows XP is still up to 26.31%.

Are you still using the XP system?