Computer Virus Statistics

I was amazed as to the rising problems dealing with computer viruses in todays day and age. I found the following link to be interesting and informative: http://www.securitystats.com/virusstats.html. In 2003 alone, it was estimated that computer viruses spreading on the net cost businesses around the world over $55 Billion in damages in 2003. An interesting fact that I came across on this site was that the Sapphire/Slammer SQL worm took aproximately 10 minutes to spread across the world. During the early stages of its infection across millions of computers throughout the world, the number of hosts were doubling in size every 8.5 seconds. After only 3 minutes of its release on the net, Sapphire zipped over the net at over 55 million IP addresses per second. Over 75,000 victims were infected and many more who never even knew what was happening were being taken advantage of. Many computers were compromised, and many institutions were opened up to the public through a "backdoor" release. According to Internet Security Systems , there were 71,402 virus attacks reported in the fourth quarter of 2000 alone. After one takes the time to sit down and slowly go through all the information dealing with viruses, a scary thought slowly creeps into their minds. What if all computers suddenly crash in the world? What if you are on a plane and the computers crash? If we only could see into the future....lol