By: (AP)
The New York Times asked employees at its landmark midtown headquarters on Friday to shut down their computers because of "system difficulties."
Spokesman Toby Usnik declined to discuss the type or scope of the problems, but said the newspaper would publish a Saturday edition.
"We asked our employees at 43rd Street to shut down their computers" as a precaution because of the system problems, Usnik said. "The systems department staff members are circulating through the building and bringing them on one at a time."
Usnik did not say whether a computer virus, like the Sobig virus currently sweeping the country, might be to blame.
Sobig already has resulted in e-mail disruptions at several businesses, universities, and other institutions. Derivatives of another virus, "Blaster" shut down signaling, dispatching, and other systems at CSX Corp.'s Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters earlier this week, as well as Air Canada's check-in systems Tuesday.
The Times' stock closed down 17 cents to $44.36 Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.
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