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Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows
rbrandis writes "Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. "This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows," said Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner. "The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology." "The Sasser worm attacks confirm our prediction that mass worm attacks against the multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on April 13 were likely," said Nicolett and his Gartner colleague, John Pescatore, in an alert posted on the Gartner site."
Does this really come as a surprise? This is something that is quite obvious. The worms sucks up resources and take many man-hours to apply patches (not even counting the testing to make sure the patches don't break other things). I honestly think the rise in cost to dealing with these things is obvious. I would think that this isn't just a Windows thing, but an issue for every OS out there, although I do realize Windows has a large majority of the attacks.
I know I am going to be modded down for this