Beckman Coulter GenS and NT 4 SP6

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Michael Nuzzo - 08 Jul 2003 20:00 GMT

The laboratory I am supporting is running a Coulter Counter GenS with
workstation software verison 4A2. The O/S is NT 4 Service Pack 4. A
couple months ago, I contacted beckman coulter and they strongly
advised against installing Service Pack 6 and other critical patches.
The problem is that this instrument is both on the network and
running SQL. While this instrument's PC was not effected this
morning, today the Slammer worm did get past the firewall and infected
1 server and 1 PC.
As anyone updated/installed patches on the O/S and SQL on a GenS?
Or should we remove it from the network?
Michael Nuzzo
System Administrator
NJ Dept of Health and Senior Services.

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kuhnfucius - 09 Jul 2003 01:37 GMT

> The problem is that this instrument is both on the network and running

SQL. While this instrument's PC was not effected this morning, today the
Slammer worm did get past the firewall and infected 1 server and 1 PC.>

If the Gen S work station is similar to our LH 's, it would be difficult to
tell as the DB/ work station is infected. Inflexable as it is a worm might
do it some good. Just two examples of several problems B/C shows no desire
to correct:: The LH does military time, but does not understand 24:00
hours, so data between 23:59 and 24:00 is potentionally lost. No it does
not recogize seconds and you cannot pick this data by putting in the next
day begining with 00:01 as a last time frame. Come on B/C how much would it
cost to fix this little bug? The DB only prints in font 8 and with
landscape page setup. To accomodate this last little problem B/C
recommends (not offically, mind you) you buy a PC to go along with their
work station. Paging Homer Simpson. Only one catch here: the flags and
messages don't archive and there is only one DB program it works with the
archived format.

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