What's The Actual Cost of A Virus?

ThosLives writes "CNN Money just posted a story that says the MyDoom virus may cost businesses $250M. My favorite quote is that for small to medium businesses with 400 or less employees, the estimate is between $48,000 and $58,000 cost to 'secure themselves' from the particular virus. Does anyone know where that number comes from? If one can charge a year's salary to fix one virus, I'm in the wrong job! Any input out there on the real, hard costs of things such as virus protection?"

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Re:Actual Cost of a Virus / SCO

[Alan Partridge]

"After you've identified a moron, it's your national duty to get rid of him... Some poison slipped into his/her coffee cup, rigging their keyboard with AC power, a little push at the train station... Whatever it takes, your country depends on you!"

But we ALREADY HAVE an efficient moron-reduction programme, it's called the ARMY. Dullards who can't get a a normal job get locked up in barracks, sent overseas and are then friendly-fired to death by clueless, trigger-happy Americans.

I thought EVERYONE knew this?