[Full-Disclosure] sco.com Press Release

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 08:52:55 GMT, Dean Ashton <da5 at 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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