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There is one sane line of reasoning
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 10 2013 @ 05:03 PM EDT

From the perspective of the professional - none of it makes sense.

But from the perspective of the individual signing the cheques, it can make sense if:

    hardware + software replacements + cost to set it all up < total costs to remove the malware
It does indicate the "investigation and advice" cost $823,000 which seems really inflated to me. Especially since the report indicated that the malware found was common stuff.

Full recovery taking close to a year seems extraordinarily high as well. But I guess that would depend on how many different systems they had to deal with and how many devices associated with those systems.

If I had to pay $1,200 for a new computer along with the software, another $200 for the manpower to set it up vs having to pay $4,000 for a consultant to repair the existing systems, I'd likely opt for the new as well. Even in that instance though, destruction seems incredibly unusual.

Perhaps the CIO experienced a moment of "computer rage".

RAS

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Well hidden malware?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 11 2013 @ 04:26 AM EDT
To an extent, I can understand their concern. They had been told that there were
well over a hundred infected systems, but they were only able to find a handful
themselves. There are two possible reasons for this:

1: The malware is very well hidden and hard to identify
2: There is not as much malware as claimed

What should you do to be sure you are clean?

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