John Asbury
British Medical Journal, vol. 297, pp.246-247
ISSN 0959-8138
July 1988
Download PDF (2.3Mb) (You need to be registered on forum)Some time ago an intensive care unit in Glasgow found that its normally well ordered computer network was becoming erratic: data were being corrupted and files were being lost. Recently a general practitioner who used an IBM compatible computer for his repeat prescriptions discovered that important files were being corrupted. In both cases a computer virus was at work. Eventually the viruses were identified and exterminated, but not quickly and not without the loss of data.