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Hi folks, 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. 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. 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 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 terminals. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html