The National Science Foundation headquarters in Arlington, Va., also lost computer access. In Kentucky, state police were told to shut down the computers in their patrol cars as technicians tried to fix the problem. Jean said patients who required emergency care for gunshot wounds, car accidents, blunt trauma and other potentially fatal injuries were still being admitted to the emergency rooms. The system includes Rhode Island Hospital, the state's largest, and Newport Hospital, the only hospital on Aquidneck Island. The hospitals also postponed some elective surgeries, said Nancy Jean, a spokeswoman for the Lifespan system of hospitals. Online posters begged to differ, saying thousands of computers running Windows XP with Service Pack 3 were rendered useless.Ībout a third of the hospitals in Rhode Island were forced to stop treating patients without traumas in emergency rooms. "We are not aware of significant impact on consumers and believe we have effectively limited such occurrence," the company said in a statement. ![]() It has posted a replacement update for download. Eastern time caused its antivirus program for corporate customers to misidentify a harmless file. ![]() confirmed that a software update it posted at 9 a.m.
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