NEW YORK April 7 news survey, caused by a virus of the damage to business equipment, IT system has been in a rising trend, businesses are increasingly vulnerable to the business of virus.
According to Cybertrust's ICSA Labs Group surveys, compared with 2003, business equipment, IT systems were infected in 2004, an increase of 50% of the virus types, each 1000 device infection event occurred 392 times, in the survey involved 300 companies and government agencies, they are mostly used by McAfee, Microsoft, Trend Micro products.
The survey also showed that when 25 or more PC and server is infected, the entire system down time compared to 2003 increased by 12%, and system recovery time required for an increase of 7 working days And each time the system needs to restore the average cost of 13 million, these two data are compared with 2003 increased by 25%.
In the survey 91% of those who said that now the virus attack is more serious. ICSA Lab Director George Japak on that, while there have anti-virus software sales, but not enough volume. Many companies do not install anti-virus software is current infection rates continue to rise is one reason. (END)