Reply #5: Given the extraordinary damage such programs effect worldwide [View All]

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I don't think that sounds unreasonable. Millions of dollars in damage are evoked in countless business, sometimes lives are lost. We had a case here about 6 months ago where a trojan shut down a hospital computer network and patient charts and histories were unavailable. A programmer who unleashes such unleashes such a distructive script has no idea who and what will be affected. Emergency services are not exempt from malicious scripts.