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Wells Fargo Web-Enables ATMs

Posted by Zonk on from the free-money dept.

smooth wombat writes "Wells Fargo has completed a five-year project to Web-enable its 6,200 ATMs in 23 states. Now the ATMS will be Windows based rather than OS/2 based. Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn., said the move to Windows-based systems is "not great news for the security of the system. I'm sure there's a lot of holes that will be created because of this.""

4 of 576 comments (clear)

  1. was a change required? by Frogmum · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What was wrong with OS/2 atms?

  2. s-l-o-w ATM keypad by anadem · · Score: 5, Interesting

    am I the only one who finds the new Wells Fargo ATM key response time to be laggardly?

    After I enter my pin, the beep sound and the asterisk that's displayed take so long that I think i've miskeyed, so press again getting a double entry which i have to cancel and slowly and carefully retry.

    Is it because of being Windowized, or just bad programming? The old OS/2 ATMs responded instantly.

  3. My ATM had crashed - UK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I went to the hole in the wall (ATM) and it was displaying a windows taskbar, a dos window with some process running with a dos full stop sequence progress meter and another McAfee window - I asked in the bank and they said it had been on and off all morning and an "engineer" was trying to fix it.

    I remember a /. article on UK banks going ove to windoze but I never thought i'd see the day.

    Was I ever laughing.

    I wonder if my atm card has a virus by now. ;-)

    PS It was Bank of Scotland

    Well I guess an OS and their money are easyily restarted.

  4. os/2 everywhere by Lys0l · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to work for IBM in OS/2 TCP/IP support. People would be amazed at how much OS/2 is still out there. Banking, industry, CIA, NSA, Vatican Bank, etc. Heart/Lung machines, ATM machines and the machines that make fritos. When OS/2 went down at friot-lay, no more fritos...not good times. I'm sad to see it go, it was great for apps such as these.