[Dfey-nw-discuss] [Fwd: [LUG] Manchester City Council loose lots of money due to Conficker worm]

[Paul Sutton]

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Hi

I have forwarded this, as it may be of interest to anyone here.

Paul
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> [LUG] Manchester City Council loose lots of money due to Conficker	worm
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> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:29:05 +0100
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> Hi folks,
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> I thought this might interest you all.  Looks like Manchester City 
> Council was hit by the Conficker worm and the infection cost the council 
> about £1.5 million.
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> They couldn't issue 1,609 parking tickets within the statutory limit of  
> 28 days which cost them £43,000, consultancy fees to clean it up cost 
> about another £600,000 (I'm thinking WTF!?!?), they spent an additional 
> £600,000 on Wyse terminals (I wonder if they are Linux or *nix based?) 
> plus another £169,000 on extra staff to cover the backlog of benefit claims.
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> I think this comment in reply to the article is the best: 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/01/conficker_council_infection/comments/#c_527595
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> Still I wonder how many companies factor in the extra for things like 
> worms and stuff into the TCO of Windows.  Maybe this council should 
> replace their systems with a couple of old IBM mainframes and dumb text 
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> Rob
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