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Repartee for Windows E-mail Integration
White Paper The "Love Bug" and the "Melissa" viruses were mainly perpetuated using Outlook. It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a... [20 Feb 2008]
Microsoft Outlook: Security Features and Vulnerabilities
White Paper The "Love Bug" and the "Melissa" viruses were mainly perpetuated using Outlook. It examines the structure of the address book, and the method in which most viruses spread. Microsoft Outlook has been a... [20 Feb 2008]
5 years ago: Melissa variant upgraded to high-risk category
News Apart from the many variants such as the one above spawned by Melissa, it represented the start of a huge rise in the number and seriousness of self-propagating worms with the ability to spread rapidly. [06 Dec 2004]
'Throttle' viruses with software
News Five years ago, with 'I Love You' and 'Melissa' [viruses], we had a sudden acceleration of the threat," Redmond said. HP plans to give customers a new weapon against viruses: software that crimps their... [01 Dec 2004]
Virus writers shouldn't get off so easy
Comment Smith, who created the Melissa virus, which clogged the internet in 1999, was sentenced in 2002 to 20 months in prison and a $5,000 fine. He never meant for his worm to spread so quickly that it became a... [18 Aug 2004]
5 years ago... US firms reel as Melissa virus spreads
News US reports say Melissa has spread faster than any other infection to date. The virus - a Microsoft Word macro dubbed Melissa - replicates in two ways: by copying itself into Word... [29 Mar 2004]
Execution Control Lists: an Approach to Defending Against New and Unknown Malicious Software
White Paper Because these viruses spread so quickly, the reactive approach to virus detection is not effective in stopping a Melissa-style virus. Today's approaches to dealing with malware are not effective. The... [25 Feb 2004]
MyDoom is the 'worst ever' virus
News F-Secure credited the worm's fast spread to several factors, including aggressive harvesting of email addresses and the fact that it was released in the middle of the North American workday, giving it several hours to... [29 Jan 2004]
The virus at 20: Two decades of malware
News Then of course there was Melissa - the first successful email-aware virus - and the granddaddy of all email-aware viruses. As computers became networked, viruses began to spread more by infecting files. [11 Nov 2003]
FBI confident of catching Sobig.F author
News The person who wrote the Melissa virus, David L. Companies and home computer users have had to deal with the MSBlast worm - also known as Blaster and Lovsan - which started spreading 11 August, a worm that attempted to... [27 Aug 2003]
Kournikova writer hits out at community service order
News Last week the writer of the Melissa virus was sentenced to 20 months in prison in the US. The Kournikova worm caused email gridlock in many companies in February 2001 when it spread for two days, luring... [07 May 2002]
Virus warning: Klez keeps on spreading
News However, Shipp said the infection is nowhere near as severe as the Love Bug or Melissa. On some unpatched systems it is also able to spread without victims having to open an attachment or an email. It... [29 Apr 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses
Cheat Sheet Headline-grabbing outbreaks such as Melissa and Love Bug demonstrate that just because an email appears to come from someone you trust, it doesn't mean it's safe. Some viruses are deliberately designed to damage files or... [26 Mar 2002]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Viruses, viruses, viruses
Comment Surely by removing worms such as Melissa et al the ISP would ultimately relieve the load on their mail servers as they wouldn't have to deal with flood of mail sent by the viruses trying to spread.... [20 Sep 2001]
Virus guru lays security blame at ISPs' doors
News Recent viruses such as Magistr and SirCam are able to carry on spreading for months after they have first been detected because their design is subtler than those that caused earlier outbreaks such as the Love Bug and... [17 Sep 2001]
