German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection

Posted by Unknown on Monday April 29, 2013 @09:07PM from the burn-it-with-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes "German IT magazine Heise reports (original in German) that the Ministry of Education in Schwerin had a Conficker virus infection on 170 machines, that was dealt with by simply throwing them on the trash. Other German authorities have now decided that 'the approach taken is not up to the principle of efficiency and economy' and that the 187,300 Euro invested in this radical form of virus removal were inappropriate. The ministry had earlier estimated the cost of cleaning their desktops and servers by more conventional means to 130,000 Euro."

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Re:Far cheaper options by serviscope_minor · 2013-04-30 04:16 · Score: 1, Troll

I have ran Linux as my primary desktop for over ten years, never run an anti-virus, never got infected.
Me too in fact BUY VIAGRA the general lack of software MAKE MONEY FROM HOME designed to wrest control FREE CAILIS of my computer and place it into the hands of CHEAP PRESCRIPTION DRUGS spammers and other con artists is GAMBLE ONLINE NOW a real boon.

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