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Hi
I have forwarded this, as it may be of interest to anyone here.
Paul
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Hi folks,
I thought this might interest you all. Looks like Manchester City
Council was hit by the Conficker worm and the infection cost the council
about £1.5 million.
They couldn't issue 1,609 parking tickets within the statutory limit of
28 days which cost them £43,000, consultancy fees to clean it up cost
about another £600,000 (I'm thinking WTF!?!?), they spent an additional
£600,000 on Wyse terminals (I wonder if they are Linux or *nix based?)
plus another £169,000 on extra staff to cover the backlog of benefit claims.
I think this comment in reply to the article is the best:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/01/conficker_council_infection/comments/#c_527595Still I wonder how many companies factor in the extra for things like
worms and stuff into the TCO of Windows. Maybe this council should
replace their systems with a couple of old IBM mainframes and dumb text
terminals.
Rob
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