Zotob damage deep but not widespread

These numbers are BS: "The average cost of recovering from a Zotob infection was $97,000, Cybertrust said. For 61 percent of victims, cleanup required more than 80 hours of work."

I don't believe these numbers for a second. If you have a Windows domain, eradicating a specific virus on all of your computers shouldn't take more than an hour or two if the proper tools are used - e.g. machine startup scripts, WMI scripts that connect out to your machines.

Are these companies having admins walk to each machine to clean them?

Lets see...$97,000 / 80 hours = $1212.50 per hour?

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These numbers are BS toadlife | 10/26/05

Maybe not... gfeier | 10/27/05

Hello Russ toadlife | 10/27/05

correction toadlife | 10/27/05

A beautiful piece if coding! An_Axe_to_Grind | 10/27/05

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