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The Register reports on a UK study of virus/worm attacks:
The number of attacks on UK networks is soaring, with even the smallest firms facing an average 500 assaults each month from viruses, worms and denial of service attempts.
Seventy per cent of the 50 small firms taking part in a six-month study experienced 1,500 attacks or more over a two week period in August.
Those numbers are somewhat skewed - the study coincided with the Sobig outbreak, and the tail end of Blaster. Nevertheless, they show the kind of pain that companies are going through. Someone needs to apply these numbers to the TCO numbers that MS thinks favor them...
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