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Costs are dependant on more than the software
The help desk spends more time on virus infections than it does answering productivity questions. Just the TCO difference in our office would be staggering, now multiply that by millions. *shudder*

The cost of this worm for deparments who are unprepared, or have incompetent staff might be high, but our deparment squashed this worm in 2 hours. Granted it was our fault for not deploying patches to desktop systems in the first place, but we were able to write our own little blaster removal tool and deploy it so that a simple reboot would clease and patch each machine. I do know of an intitution who's entire network was infected for two weeks while they ran around with CD's to each computer, but that was their fault.

That means if you had to reinstall Windows you couldn't even connect to MS to update to the latest patches without getting infected.

Actually you can. With WinXP, you just enable the XP Firewall before plugging your NIC. In the case of Win2k, you can do do a simple IPSEC policy or use packet filtering on your connection - something the average user won't have a clue about.

Nevertheless I get your point - read my post above 'millions still infected' - XP comes with the firewall OFF by default (Good job Microsoft!), and what you described happened to me.
Posted by: toadlife   Posted on: 04/02/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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All the more reason  MkIIISupra | 04/02/04
All the more reason  seosamh_z | 04/03/04
Buy something ELSE!  OhMyGosh | 04/03/04
Buy something ELSE!  seosamh_z | 04/03/04
re:  ryusen | 04/05/04
Millions still infected  toadlife | 04/02/04
ISP's dont care.  DragonBRockin | 04/02/04
And no one else cares either  toadlife | 04/02/04
Some of them are  Chad_z | 04/03/04
This is why a monoculture is bad  Rick_K | 04/03/04
BillyG IS A TERRORIST!  carbon-12 | 04/02/04
numbers  toadlife | 04/02/04
re : numbers  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Your estimate is off!  B.O.F.H. | 04/02/04
A network monitor will tell you  Chad_z | 04/02/04
Costs are dependant on more than the software  toadlife | 04/02/04
re  V Sanders | 04/03/04
Dude, put down the crack pipe  Chad_z | 04/04/04
Still very widespread  Nigel Johnstone | 04/03/04
That is why they want the FEDS to regulate cybercrime  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/03/04
no, it is to make sure companies and people  V Sanders | 04/04/04
free software can't afford the checking and double checking  wackoae | 04/04/04
Intertesting little gem........  nite_w0lf | 04/03/04
Black Helicopter Response...  Confused by religion | 04/03/04
Does this mean...  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
re: didn't the article say...  ryusen | 04/05/04
how do they get these numbers?  V Sanders | 04/03/04
probably  CobraA1 | 04/03/04
It's all the work of a bad design  middsco | 04/03/04
from what I hear . . .  CobraA1 | 04/03/04
This data courtesy of MS spyware ???  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
oh - bull  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Good one!  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
A lot of ISP's are blocking Port 135  jfrankcarr | 04/04/04
linux hacked more then originaly thought  V Sanders | 04/04/04
So, MS spyware 'ratted' them out about their earlier spin on Slammer ???  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
Now cut that out  myndlon@... | 04/05/04
OOPS, previous post should say 'Blaster', not 'Slammer'... Too many ...  Plain Logic | 04/04/04
Is is just my bias or is it true that  mlindl | 04/05/04
I can think of about 4 or 5...  Spoon Jabber | 04/05/04
MsBlaster has larger subscriber base then Linux  ShadeTree | 04/05/04

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