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Computer Virus Hits Newspapers Coast-to-Coast, Affects Printing (nbcnews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

A computer virus hit newspaper printing plants in Los Angeles and at Tribune Publishing newspapers across the country. From a report: Tribune Publishing said Saturday night that malware affected its ability to print newspapers across its chain of outlets, including the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Baltimore Sun and the Orlando Sentinel. Many subscribers to the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, which were previously owned by Tribune Publishing and still share some production technology with the company, stepped into a chilly sunny morning Saturday only to find empty doorsteps. The computer malware was detected Friday and "impacted some back-office systems which are primarily used to publish and produce newspapers across our properties," said Marisa Kollias, Tribune communications vice president, in a statement.

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  1. Newspaper? by olsmeister · · Score: 2

    Is that like a paper version of Twitter?

    1. Re: Newspaper? by nsuccorso · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, youâ(TM)ll find that in a roll next to your toilet.

  2. Re:Paper by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 2

    Don't you people get tons of store flyers printed on paper like us in Canada?

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  3. The virus Also affected some web versions by williamyf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Specificaly:

    "The digital replica edition of the Union-Tribune was also affected. The company is working to restore that version this morning."

    Granted, you could use the web to get your information and news somewhere else...

    But, if for whatever reason you were a subscriber of the SD union tribune, and/or wanted to see the SD union tribune, the web was not there to save the day.

    Source:
    https://www.sandiegouniontribu...

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  4. What ever you do don't mention Windows :] by najajomo · · Score: 2

    It's tech reporting like this that keeps me coming back to the slashdot. Would this “computer” by any chance be running Microsoft Windows? What the fuck is the point of running a technology blog if you won't supply any technical information? Let me guess, opening an email attachment triggered a macro in a Microsoft Word file ..

    Programmers worked to isolate the bug

    I would have thought the solution would be to patch the OS then deploy the patched OS to the desktops.