On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:09:41PM -0700, darkuncle@darkuncle.net said:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 01:07:15PM -0400, len@netsys.com said:
How much longer will people put up with the millions of dollars of losses in time, resources and service inflicted on the net by the joke vulnerabilities in the toy operating system known as Windows? Enough is Enough.
for those financial types reading the list (courtesy /. post): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/737353.stm California-based IT consultancy Computer Economics estimated worldwide damage to be $2.6bn by the end of Thursday. It said that figure could soar to $10bn by next week. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-01-code-red-costs.htm Lloyds of London put the estimate for Love Bug at $15 billion. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-08-01-code-red-costs.htm the economic damage from the Melissa virus in 1999 to be about $1 billion. http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2001/10/22/focus4.html "Code Red, which started in mid-July, so far has cost the U.S. economy $2.6 billion." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/30072.html "The Klez virus last year cost businesses $9 billion worldwide in lost productivity," http://www.bstpierre.org/Articles/fog0000000073.html "SirCam", which also propagates through email, cost $1 billion. Summary: "ILOVEYOU" virus: $2.6 - 15.0 Billion Melissa: $1 Billion CodeRed: $2.6 Billion Klez: $9 Billion SirCAM: $1 Billion Estimated Total TCO: $16.2 - 28.6 billion -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui