Re: The cost of cybercrime - Re: [Rival] Microsoft Windows Zombies Emit Well Over 100,000,000,000 SPAM Per Day

[AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:37:28 -0700 (PDT), Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Let's look at that, shall we?  You can plug in your own numbers, but I
>think you will find that Microsoft "spam-bots" is costing us a lot
>more than you might think.

>Figure that each PC user spends 1 hour per day sorting out the spam,
>at even $10 per hour, times 1 billion users, that's $10 billion.  Most
>PC using professionals make more like $20 to $40 per hour, and actual
>costs are closer to $50-60 per hour.  So maybe an average of $50 per
>hour or it's equvalent, for $50 billion.

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Not only that, but probably half of all PCs purchased are purchased
because the previous PC was so infested with malware, that repairing
it would cost half as much as a new PC.  Factor the cost of replacing
PCs every 2-3 years instead of every 5-6 years.

I've been seeing 6 month vista machines that are already unuseable due
to millions of temp files piling up and the idiot OS trying to catalog
all of them for DRM and desktop search.  Just keep on replacing them!