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From: mlande at bellsouth.net (Mary Landesman) Subject: sco.com Press Release Oh heck, a measley billion in damage is way under estimate - according to mi2g. They're estimating MyDoom costs at $38.5 billion. As Rob at VMyths.com pointed out, that's twice as much as the damage costs tallied when Hurricane Andrew wiped out Homestead Florida. http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/010204.php Utterly amazing. And I've heard some of the press has picked it up as 'fact' - that's even sadder. -- Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: "ktabic" <lists@...bic.co.uk> To: "full-disclosure mailinglist" <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] sco.com Press Release Values like this (which would bankrupt companies, if it was real, yet not yet heard of a compny going bankrupt due to email virii) alway remind me of Bell South claiming a sub-$20 dollar document that they sold was worth $79,000 cause it was in electronic form. A rough calculation using 1,000,000,000 (the way I see a billion) being applied to a reversed Bell South (or BS) meathod of calculating computer damages, that I just invented results, in a probably more realistic value of $253,164.55. Worldwide. On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 08:52, Dean Ashton wrote: > >From http://sco.com/thescogroup/ > > > ?Security experts are calling Mydoom the largest virus attack ever to > hit the Internet, costing businesses and computer users around the world > in excess of $1 billion in lost productivity and damage,? said Darl > McBride > > now does that sound a little excessive to anyone else? > > > Regards, > Dean. ktabic -- www.ktabic.co.uk Many sysadmins won't give you the time of day. Thats what NTP is for.
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