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German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection
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."
There a more than 1200 Linux viruses. That notion of yours is bullshit.
And you are forgetting costs to teach your average secretary how to use Linux + New Software licenses + migration costs.
You must be a teenager in Mom's basement if you think for a second that large scale environments can be migrated to Linux for free and everyone know how to use it. Bollocks.
Supported Linux like Red Hat actually costs money.
Troll bait successfully taken.
Linux has had some root escalation bugs that took more than 5 years to fix and all that was required was a local shell.
Another reason to not sell a Linux VPS.
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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