Mysterious AVID issue knocks out Mac Pro workstations across Hollywood


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 24 Sep 2019

Some analysis by affected users seemed to suggest that the outage may not have been caused by a virus, but by a recent software update that may have corrupted some data, with some suggesting a OS X reinstall that keeps the existing data to restart the machine. — AFP

LOS ANGELES: Film and TV editors across Los Angeles were sweating Monday evening as their workstations were refusing to reboot, resulting in speculations about a possible computer virus attack. Social media reports suggested that the issue was widespread among users of Mac Pro computers running older versions of Apple's operating system as well as AVID's Media Composer software.

Apple and AVID didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

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