Worst Computer Viruses Of All Time
And a side trip to Daylight Savings Time
Yahoo just had a story highlighting Symantec’s list of Worst Computer Viruses Of All Time. The story includes a short description of each virus, including some cost figures of damage done.
Many of these viruses were as damaging as they were only because computer users, probably bored at their jobs, exhibited poor judgment and in many cases even violated corporate policy.
I have just updated the Internet Security Software page on my website so you can see how my clients prevent serious problems.
I also have a page about user behavior that is quite pertinent also.
But since the above mentioned Yahoo article talks about cost, has anyone calculated the cost to corporate America to deal with the cost-increasing, not cost-decreasing debacle of Daylight Savings Time, in particular, the costs associated with George W’s 3 week adjustment made in 2007?
I guarantee you that number is STAGGERING; yet it was only political posturing. I saw fallout from that this year on new servers installed and updated in January 2008 that did not automatically get the proper patch from Microsoft.
It’s one thing to suffer at the hands of ne’er do wells, usually in some foreign land who hate American’s anyway, but the Daylight Savings Time debacle was brought upon us by those sworn to look after our well being. And the Daylight Savings Time issue has research going back to 1976 showing that is doesn’t save energy or our environment the way it was alleged to.
