• Cnet, Monday, October 27, 2008 12 PM

Let's face it: You don't spend all your time at work working. You occasionally check your personal e-mail, watch that YouTube video forwarded by your sister, maybe send a few winks on Match.com. All of which is fine, even expected. Except that your downtime Web habits are killing your poor IT department.

Security specialist FaceTime Communications commissioned a survey of nearly 530 IT managers to discover the impact of such Internet activities on IT departments. About 73% of IT managers reported having had to deal with at least one Internet-related attack at work, with viruses, Trojans, and worms being the most common type, followed by spyware. On average, IT managers reported 34 incidents per month, and a typical incident takes 22 hours to fix.

And the situation will likely get worse before it gets better. About 97% of workers surveyed reported using one or more Internet applications at work, up from 85% last year.

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