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Sobig virus most expensive ever

Monday September 1, 2003 20:11

And people wonder why I laugh every time Bill Gates talks about Windows having a lower Total Cost of Ownership than Mac OS or Linux.

Sobig has overtaken Klez, Love Bug and Yaha in the league table of most economically damaging malware tracked within the SIPS database, having now recorded $14.62 billion of economic damages worldwide measured in terms of lost productivity as of 10:30 GMT. The malware Klez has been pushed to number two ($13.94 billion) and Love Bug ($8.75 billion) has descended to number three as a result

More at http://www.net-security.org/press.php?id=1635.

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