Wyse Thin Clients Fend Off Destructive Nimda Virus While Saving Customers Millions of Dollars
SAN JOSE, Calif. (09/24/01) ----- Wyse® Technology,
the worldwide leader in thin-client computing, today announced that its
Winterm™ line of thin-client desktops are immune to the Nimda worm and have
been protecting businesses from this recent malicious virus attack. As
companies and organizations reel from the millions of dollars worth of damage
and lost productivity worldwide caused by Nimda, businesses that have been
using Wyse Winterm thin clients have not had to cope with infected desktop
devices. Unlike PC's, which have been most vulnerable to Nimda, Wyse Winterm
thin clients store and access information from central servers, making then
immune to attacks by malicious codes, worms, viruses and trojan horses.
The thin-client environment inherently provides
protection from viruses and other aggressive attacks to critical information
systems, saving companies millions of dollars. US-based Computer Economics, a
leading research firm in the IT industry, recently reported that Nimda caused
estimated damages of $370 million worldwide, which includes costs from lost
productivity, the need to upgrade or replace damaged systems and IT consulting
costs. In a thin- client environment, viruses never touch the desktop device,
enabling IT managers to focus on protecting a few servers rather than
thousands of desktops.
Wyse Resellers Help Customers Fight Viruses
The adoption of thin clients by enterprises will continue to increase with the
growing number of attacks and infections upon personal computers. Wyse Winterm
thin clients are a simpler and easier way to deliver the productivity and
application flexibility of a personal computer (PC) without the "PC downside"
of high service costs, low reliability, and short product life. Resellers such
as Vector ESP, a Wyse gold authorized reseller in Benicia, Calif., recognize
the security and reliability of thin-client computing.
"Nimda hasn't affected our thin-client based
customers," said Sean Thomas, solutions analyst of Vector ESP, "Because Wyse
thin clients are connected to servers with security software specifically
setup to not allow viruses such as Nimda to execute, the end the end user is
never affected."
About the Nimda Worm
W32/Nimda@MM is a destructive mass-mailing (@mm) worm that sends copies of
itself to all the e-mail addresses in the infected users' address books. In
addition, Nimda probes HTTP Port 80, including those on unpatched IIS servers.
The worm itself is a compiled executable with varying file names. The worm
spreads by emailing itself as an attachment, scanning for and then infecting
vulnerable Web servers running Microsoft's IIS software. Much of the worm's
virulence is due to its automated spread.
"Today's economic challenges and security concerns are
causing companies to take a hard look at their computer systems," said George
Skaff, vice president of worldwide marketing for Wyse Technology. "Many
companies are turning to Wyse because of our continuous commitment to
providing secure solutions."
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