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The study found almost 50% of the biggest security breaches suffered by companies in the last two years were due to infection by malicious programs.

In some cases viruses crippled key systems such as e-mail for more than a day while companies cleaned up.

It also found that the worst outbreaks can take up to 50 days to fix.

Almost 25% of those surveyed said they had no defences in place to protect them against spyware. As a result one in seven of the most serious incidents were caused by machines infected with spyware.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm

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