Anti-Virus Software Prevents Boiler Safety Shutdown
- Event Year
- 2001
- Reliability
- Likely But Unconfirmed
- Country
- United States
- Industry
- Petroleum
Description
A TUV approved boiler safety protection system used Microsoft Excel on a PC workstation for programming. This workstation also had Norton anti-virus software running. The AV software prevented the proper communications between the PC and the protection system.
Impact
The protection system was incorrectly configured and a safety shutdown that should have occured did not.