Re: sco.com Press Release

[cdowns <cdowns () drippingdead com>]

If this was the case then all home users should be entitled to damages 
and recieve compensational payment when this all settles out .. . . Aint 
happening.

Corps will recieve money's, insurance etc . . The end user will be 
stiffed /BUT/ included in the internet virus tally carnage report

w0rd - my 2 cents. . .

~!>D

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:52:55 GMT, Dean Ashton <da5 () ukc ac uk>  said:
>
>  
>
> > “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?
> >    
>
> If you assume there's 200 million people who got sent a copy of either
> the virus or the A/V spam replies, and that people make an average of
> $10/hour, if they spent an average of 30 minutes cleaning the crap out
> of their mailboxes, or waiting for an e-mail with important info to
> clear through a server, or anything else in the way of inconvenience, they're
> up to a billion right there.
>
> Doesn't sound excessive to me.
>  

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