The recent incidences shows that even the most systems that we think to be highly secured are vulnerable to virus attacks. The incident in which the French Navy's fighter planes were unable to download their fight plans as the databases were attacked by a Microsoft virus. 
However, the French navy admitted that during the time it took to disinfect the virusThe incident forced the defence authorities to use the traditional systems like telephone, fax and post. Naval officials said the infection was probably due more to negligence than a deliberate attempt to compromise French national security. It said it suspected someone at the navy had used an infected USB key
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