Re: sco.com Press Release

["Mary Landesman" <mlande () bellsouth net>]

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 () ktabic co uk>
To: "full-disclosure mailinglist" <full-disclosure () lists 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.


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