Spyware Cost Calculator

Although the biggest potential spyware cost to your enterprise is from confidential data theft, the purchase of anti-spyware technologies can often be justified just on the cost savings of reduced IT costs of cleaning spyware infected systems.

Number of workstations:
Average Annual Salary for IT Support Staff:	$
Loaded annual salary*:	$
Loaded hourly rate:	$
Percentage of workstations infected each quarter (default is 30%):			%
Quarterly total number of infected workstations:
Quarterly hours spent cleaning infected workstations:
Projected annual hours spent cleaning spyware infected workstations**:
Annual IT costs of cleaning infections:	$

* Assumptions used to calculate the loaded annual salary are:
The employee salary load factor is the total cost for each employee, which include salary, benefits, employee supplies & equipment, work facility, etc. IT industry analyst use a minimum loading factor of 1.5.

** Assumptions used to calculate hours spent fixing spyware are:
3 hours of IT service time for cleaning severly infected workstations, 2 hours of IT service time for moderately infected workstations, and 1 hour of IT service time for mildly infected workstations. Assumption for level of infection is a 50/30/20 split between severly/moderately/ mildly infected workstations.