The costly implications of consulting in a virus-infected computer environment

Computer viruses are an unfortunate fact of life on today’s college and university campuses. A recent examination of campus computing center newsletters suggests that the risks of contracting a computer virus have become real and acute for computer users across the country. The problem has become particularly pressing for these who frequent shared computing facilities, for example, university microcomputer clusters. Many individuals have turned to the central computing services for assistance and information. Meanwhile, the costs of increasingly frequent virus attacks have become evident as consultants and users spend time, effort, and money detecting, eradicating, and attempting to recover from this scourge of the electronic age.