Businesses are asking for virus trouble

[bigc73542]

Link to story: http://www.platinum-celebs.com/internet/news/2004_03_05.html

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BUSINESSES ARE ASKING FOR VIRUS TROUBLE

As many as 7 per cent of British businesses surveyed by the Government's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) do not have antivirus protection. PricewaterhouseCoopers conducted a telephone and face to face survey of 1000 UK businesses on behalf of the government agency, and found that 89 per cent of businesses...

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[optigrab]

Wow. :o

Failing to take precautions like AV updates, patches, etc. is just incomprehensible to me, but not unheard of.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=22431

Regards
Optigrab

[bigc73542]

You would think that if you had a business that could actually incure loss from not updating software or not running it all does seem a little stupid. It has gone beyond just being annoying.