Re: I love you Author evidence ?

[lmbaier () NETINS NET (Lynn Baier)]

Take a look at this
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-7may2000-22.htm the new
estimate is now 16.9 billion dollars. Give it a couple more days and it may
become another y2k?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christofer C. Bell" <cbell () JAYHAWKS NET>
To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: I love you Author evidence ?

> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Thierry wrote:
>
> > (I wonder if shutting down mailservers creates millions of $ losses ?)
>
> I just wanted to point out that not all the losses are in terms of
> shutdown email.  I know of several of that had their business' webservers
> impacted because Windows clients had the machines mounted via SMB
> filesharing (the web development group specifically) and the "worm"
> deleted the site's .jpg files.
>
> I also heard of one company whose entire business is digital images being
> impacted because they lost a goodly portion of their wares.  The losess
> here aren't all measured in terms of lost productivity, but destruction of
> goods and services offered by some content providers.
>
> This is just some additional insight on how the figure of $100M may have
> been reached.
>
> --
> Chris