The Actual Costs of Fighting Computer Viruses

Total cost of MyDoom virus at my work

From http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=94687&cid=8122283

I'm the sysadmin for a small ISP. Here's our rough figures:

Actual costs of fighting computer viruses at a small ISP
New mail server, bought last February	$2500
FreeBSD 4.8	$0
Qmail	$0
Vpopmail	$0
qmail-scanner	$0
Spamassassin	$0
F-prot antivirus for unix file servers	$400/year/server
My time (*)	$3000
Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching sendmail admins patching	Priceless
Moving from sendmail to qmail and watching server load averages go from 20 to 0.02	Priceless
Adding on spamassassin server wide and watching server load averages go from 0.02 to 3.0	Well, it's still better than sendmail was
Watching the server eat 30,000 viruses a day during the MyDoom attack after months of hard work	Totally Righteous

There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's my Boss' MasterCard. Accepted in places where Open Source Software impresses geeks like me.

(*) I'd never before used any of the software listed above. It took a while to learn it all in between tech support calls.