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What's The Actual Cost of A Virus?

Posted by simoniker on from the return-to-sender dept.

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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  1. The answer is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    $699

  2. Re:Actual Cost of a Virus / SCO by DotNM · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    One thing I kinda don't get is that there are ISP's that actually cater to spammers!

    Also, what about all the sysadmins that don't secure their e-mail servers. Maybe they don't know how, or maybe they're just too lazy to.

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  3. there's another virus i'm more worried about by circletimessquare · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's called h5n1

    if you know what i am talking about, you agree with me it could cost a LOT more

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  4. Would you touch my junk... liberally? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Would you touch my junk?

    Liberally?

    Just like Batman did.