Friday, January 16
PC viruses spawn $55 billion loss in 2003 | CNET News.com
From PC viruses spawn $55 billion loss in 2003 | CNET News.com:
Companies lost roughly $20 billion to $30 billion in 2002 from the virus attacks, up from about $13 billion in 2001, according to various industry estimates.I'm sorry, but I have to laugh a little at this. How in the hell can they tell how much a virus costs? Going back 13 years ago, when I had the three file servers at Commerce under my control, I had an employee who was running around with a virus infected floppy, infecting computers right and left. The really bad part was that she was also a network administrator, and she was infecting all the server files as well. It was the fucking butterflies one (that was part of a text string in it, and that's what I called it, much to the chagrin of my superiors...) , and I worte a program that detected it and fixed the infections. Norton and others wouldn't (at the time) fix this one. Cost to fix it? Not really that much, since that was part of our job to handle, but hey, what do I know? Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 1/16/2004 11:16:00 AM
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