Houston Municipal Courts to close after virus attack

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HOUSTON -- A Houston City Hall source told 11 News that the city’s municipal court system will be closed later Friday afternoon. It will remain closed all weekend and Monday, after a widespread computer virus infected city computers and forced them to shut down.

The source said the courtroom closure will begin with Friday’s 4 p.m. docket.

Houston’s director of information technology, Richard Lewis, told 11 News the virus is believed to be the “Conficker” virus, and it has infected nearly every computer at the Municipal Court and Parking Management Department, as well as isolated systems across the city.

 

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Municipal Courts to remain closed at least 2 more days

The courts shut down Friday after a computer virus infected the system there. Officials initially identified the virus as the Conficker, but on Monday announced that it was a newer virus, called the Virute.