Not even comparable. This comparison is actually one of the most poor that I've seen. Kudos for trying, at least.
Because we all know that computers aren't important, right?
I mean it's not like computers run things like bank systems, medical systems, management systems for companies, management systems for traffic and such, and it's not like people at home use their computers for anything important... just personal e-mail, banking, finances, stuff like that.
So yeah, computers being infected isn't important at all.
Although I adore the condescending post, missing the entire point of what I was saying is adorable.
I wasn't discounting the importance of computers, as you seemed to have assumed as you went on your tirade. I know computers are important. Don't be a jackass about it. What I'm saying is that 64,000 includes all corporate computers (which would need to have personal use by people for this virus, for each computer), home computers (which likely comprise the majority), and everything that might sit in between. Hell, it might be 100 corporate computers and what's happening? Their searches are being redirected. Big woop. If they have even a half decent AV, a scan would likely catch the first virus, and anything that might try to get through because of screwy searches would be caught too. All because the FBI
might see the need to get involved doesn't mean it's dreadfully serious.
By the by, 64,000 being infected with a disease
worldwide would get the disease put fairly low on the priority list overall except for very specific cases. There are a lot of diseases that afflict many people yearly that don't even get researched actively because there wouldn't be enough overall benefit to curing it over curing more malicious and/or widespread diseases out there. That's a whole different discussion though, which is why I discarded it entirely. It's not a good comparison by any means. I mean, shit, over
1 billion people are afflicted by neglected diseases and aren't going to be seeing decent treatment any time soon. So yeah, 64,000 people when it comes to quite a number of diseases? Negligible by most government and healthcare standards.