Computer worm slows federal court system

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BY CATHERINE WILSON 
Associated Press 
November 8, 2001 

Federal courts in South Florida reverted to a paper to track thousands
of cases Wednesday following an assault by an updated version of the
Nimda computer worm.

The federal courts' national system came under attack on Halloween but
was repaired over the weekend. The Miami-based court system operates
on a separate network and crashed.

Service slowed down on the national network, but it kept running, and
court files were never in jeopardy, said Karen Redmond, spokeswoman
for the Administrative Office for U.S. Courts.

``It's kind of nice not having computers,'' said one Miami court
employee. Another said, ``I am doing everything from scratch.''

Computers used by South Florida judges, court employees and probation
officers were being repaired, but workers were told they might have to
track their work on paper through Friday.

U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz suggested Tuesday that attorneys in
an anthrax-related lawsuit by postal workers should hand her their
legal filings on diskettes so she can work around the computer bug.



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