High reliability is very important for a system dealing with patient information, and many physicians are concerned about the temporary loss of access to patient records if computers crash, viruses attack or the power fails [ 8, 11, 17].
Beyond being easily available to family and friends, digital video and other data stored on the Xdrive servers are safe from computer crashes, viruses and theft, Mrs. Mertzel said.
Respondents from facility to national level reported data loss due to computer crashes, viruses, and misfiled electronic data.
If they are crashing, a virus is not their biggest problem at that point.
Consider threats from humans (hackers, competitors, user errors), technical systems (crashes, overloads, viruses), and/or environmental threats (natural disasters, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes).
Should a virus crash the system, the administrator can rewind it and fix the problem.
During its 21-year run, Brookside Close became the scene of ever-more apocalyptic bombshells – an armed siege, a helicopter crash, the ebola virus, a lynching.
It's more like the influence of a natural disaster or a plane crash or a virus for which scientists can't find a cure.
Not long ago, however, I decided to see for myself what it would take to cause harm on the Internet: to release a virus, crash a computer system, obliterate privacy, and destroy the data that we have come to rely on.
Many people easily lose patience with PCs that are slow to start up and prone to crashing, vulnerable to virus attacks and constantly in need of fiddly updates.
