The Pratt Community College computer system is back up and running following four days of fighting a virus that caused individual campus computers to drop connection with the college computer system, said Kent Adams, PCC vice president of finance and operations.
The problem started Monday about 5 p.m. and appears to have originated from a flash drive at the Winfield campus where PCC has a satellite-nursing program. It then traveled through the Wichita satellite and into the Pratt main campus.
The problem has been corrected and no data was lost or compromised. The system has been beefed up so that it will scan flash drives for viruses before allow them to make connections to the college system, Adams said.
The virus was an internal problem within the system and there was no danger of it spreading to flash drives, CDs or DVDs the public or students might use in connection with the PCC system.
“It (virus spread) should not be any problem,” Adams said.
