Malware Costs 7.8 Billion
Newsfactor – I maintain my own machines and many of those of people I’m close to. This number is probably not all that off target.
Consumers paid as much $7.8 billion over two years to repair or replace computers that got infected with viruses and spyware, a Consumer Reports survey found.
That figure was down from a similar survey a year ago. Still, it suggests that people are paying large sums to cope with the flood of malicious viruses and other programs that can slow computers or render them inoperable.
It’s gotten so bad recently that I’ve actively considered moving over to a non-Intel Apple; I’m not that attached to Windows.
-Shlok
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