State Dept. Computers ØWÑËÐ !
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030924/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/state_computer_virus



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The virus crippled the department's Consular Lookout and Support System, known as CLASS, which contains more than 12.8 million records from the FBI (news - web sites), the State Department and U.S. immigration, drug-enforcement and intelligence agencies. Among the names are those of at least 78,000 suspected terrorists.


In an internal message sent late Tuesday to embassies and consular offices worldwide, officials cautioned that "CLASS is down due to a virus found in the system." There was no backup system immediately available, and officials said they could not predict how long the outage might last.


It was unclear which computer virus might have affected the system. But a separate message sent to embassies and consular offices late Tuesday warned that the "Welchia" virus had been detected in one facility. Welchia is an aggressive infection unleashed last month that exploits a software flaw in recent versions of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software.


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US STATE DEPT OWNED !!

And CHONG is going to prison for 9 months..