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Melissa Virus - Paper

Melissa Virus

On Friday March 26, 1999 an e-mail virus named "Melissa" slipped into systems via e-mail and forcing computers to fire off dozens of infected messages to friends and colleagues. Once opened, the virus immediately reads the user's e-mail address book and sends an infected message to the first 50 entries. Although the virus apparently causes no permanent damage to a computer, its clogging affects were far-reaching. All new Microsoft Word documents created on an infected computer will contain the virus, too. Our own computer lab has posted a warning stating if a you receive a mail docoument the says, "Here is that document you asked for ... don't show it to anyone else" with a winking ...

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infected, said Sal Viveros, the company's group marketing manager for total virus defense. Another customer reported that 60,000 desktops were already affected, and another company said 500,000 e-mail messages were floating around in its system.
Although it is hard to find the source of the the e-mail. A man named Richard Smith, president of Phar Lap Software, a firm that makes operating systems and software tools, thinks he knows who made the e-mail virus. He had found clues linking the virus to a still-unidentified writer who uses the computer handle ``VicodinES''. He thinks the virus writer distributed it using an account stolen from America Online 15 months ...

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Added: 9/26/2007 01:05:59 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 298
Pages: 2

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